Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Only in the present do things happen.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

Life itself is a quotation.

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

In my next life I will try to commit more errors.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.