“The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.”

“God has created nights well-populatedwith dreams, crowded with mirror images,so that man may feel that he is nothing morethan vain reflection. That's what frightens us.”

“Image is sorcery.”

“It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.”

“I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.”

“The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.”

“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it. ”