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

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

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.

We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we too would become Taliban.

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.