True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.