“Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.”

“The gods are fugitive guests of literature. ”

“They had to stir the churn of the ocean, until the soma floated up, as butter floats from milk. And this task could not be undertaken in opposition to the Asuras, but only with their help. The pronouncement ran contrary to everything the Devas had previously thought. But in the end, what did they have to lose, given that their lives were so futile? Now they thought: Anything, so long as there be a trial, a risk, a task.”

“The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest him with a power and knowledge that can belong to one man only, and that only the monster can give.”

“The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.”

“Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.”

“We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.”