A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.

The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.