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

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

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

...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).