I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.