I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

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.

When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.