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

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

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.

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.