Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.