A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.
Jorge Luis BorgesThe central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
Jorge Luis BorgesAs a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
Jorge Luis Borges