Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Every man should be capable of all ideas.