I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.

We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with the real phenomena, the graphic images can be considered as wholly arbitrary with respect to these phenomena.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

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