We like lists because we don't want to die.

To survive, you must tell stories.

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country