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

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

Reality favors symmetry.