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.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art’s temptations: that of being a genius.
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.