When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.

It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

Everything touches everything.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.