We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with the real phenomena, the graphic images can be considered as wholly arbitrary with respect to these phenomena.

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.