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.

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.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.