Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.

One can only forget about time by making use of it.

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.

Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.

You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

There is no language without deceit.

Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.

The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.