The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.