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.

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my tales. But really I was only trying to see what could be done with them. On the other hand, it might be argued that if I use them it's because I was feeling an affinity to them. Of course, that's true.

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

If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.