I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

Simple mechanisms do not love.