“O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir f com religio e amor com casamento.”

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation o...”

“I am beginning to be sorry that I ever undertook to write this book. Not that it bores me; I have nothing else to do; indeed, it is a welcome distraction from eternity. But the book is tedious, it ...”

“Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.”

“The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much t...”

“he best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to...”

“There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race o...”

“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself...”

“I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.”

“Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms. And this was, after all, now a Mabden world. He must learn to accept its peculiar disorders as...”

“As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.”

“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”