You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.