No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.