“A necessary monster.”

“In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?”

“La ceguera gradual no es cosa trágica. Es como un lento atardecer de verano.”

“El hombre olvida que es un muerto que conversa con muertos.”

“A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.”

“Czym są w końcu słowa? Słowa to symbole naszych wspólnych wspomnień. Kiedy używam danego słowa, spodziewam się, że czytelnicy posiadają pewne doświadczenia, związane z jego znaczeniem.”

“The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.”