Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.