“When one made love to zerospheres embraced their archesand prime numbers caught their breath...”

“True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.”

“Rules cease to exist once they have outlived their value, but forms live on eternally. There are forms of the novel which impose on the suggested topic all the virtues of the Number. Born of the very expression and of the diverse aspects of the tale, connected by nature with the guiding idea, daughter and mother of all the elements that it polarizes, a structure develops, which transmits to the works the last reflections of Universal Light and the last echoes of the Harmony of Worlds.”

“One must see everything.”

“He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.”

“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At such intersections we always encounter what we have already seen.”

“La vie? Un rien l'amène, un rien l'anime, un rien la mine, un rien l'emmène.”