There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

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.