Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.