The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my tales. But really I was only trying to see what could be done with them. On the other hand, it might be argued that if I use them it's because I was feeling an affinity to them. Of course, that's true.

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.