Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.

It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

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

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.