I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

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

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

The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.