When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.