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

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

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.

Each thing implies the universe.

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

In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.