The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlön an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

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

I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

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