Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

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.

That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.

My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my friends who write in prose say that I'm no writer when I attempt prose. So really I don't know what to do, I'm in a quandary.

I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God replied: I am not, either. I dreamed the world the way you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare: one of the forms of my dream was you, who, like me, are many and one.