Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.