Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

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

People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my tales. But really I was only trying to see what could be done with them. On the other hand, it might be argued that if I use them it's because I was feeling an affinity to them. Of course, that's true.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

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

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line