Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

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