Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.

It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

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

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.