I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

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.

I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.