It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

Libraries can take the place of God.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.