Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Libraries can take the place of God.

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.