Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.

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 truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.

i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.