I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.
Julio CortazarOnly in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
Julio CortazarThere 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.
Julio CortazarI realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.
Julio Cortazar