The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

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

...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).