Life itself is a quotation.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.