He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.