Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture.

The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.

Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

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

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