Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

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.

The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.