Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.