Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.

Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.