"I have always believed that paradise is a kind of library, but I have never been able to find it."

"I am not sure that I exist, in fact. I am all the writers I have read, all the people I have met, all the women I have loved; all the cities I have visited, all the ancestors I have had."

"I have been blind for many years, but I have seen more than most men."

"Everything that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."

"Reality favors symmetries and slight anachronisms."