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.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

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

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.