All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

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

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas.

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.