Reality is not always probable, or likely.

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

There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.

The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.

I have always come to life after coming to books.