An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

I write what I write.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

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

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.