It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.