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

As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that I've always been fond of short stories, and it always took me some trouble to get through a novel.

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.