Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

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