"I can do nothing to change the past, but I can do a great deal to change the future."

"A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals…"

"I am not a philosopher. I am a writer of fiction."

"I have always come to life after coming to books."

"The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library... Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book."