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

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.

Life itself is a quotation.

A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.