Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God replied: I am not, either. I dreamed the world the way you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare: one of the forms of my dream was you, who, like me, are many and one.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.

What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.