Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.

Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.