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.

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?

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.

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