There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

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.