I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

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

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books... If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.