In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility; their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.

Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.