Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

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

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.

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.