In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.