Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.