Books always speak of other books.

Translation is the art of failure.

...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).

What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.

Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.