The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.

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

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

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.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

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