The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

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

Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.

I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.