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

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

I think most people are more important than their opinions.

The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlön an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.