"The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth."

"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."

"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."

"The words of the world want to make sentences."

"They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running."

"I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make."

"Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either."

"It is a essential truth that the present moment is the only sanctuary where peace truly resides — an essential principle for the reflective life."