I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.

Libraries can take the place of God.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.