Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.