Time is the thing I am made of. Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that tears me apart, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
Life itself is a quotation.
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.