A secret is powerful when it is empty.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.