1. “Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.”
2. “When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.”
3. “The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.”
4. “Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”
5. “Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive a what we were before we were this thing that , who knows, we are.”
6. “I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.”
7. “The noel wins by points, the short story by knockout.”
8. “Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out this infinite absurdity.”
9. “Human history is the sad result of each on looking out for himself.”
10. “In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”
11. “The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death’s best weapons.”
12. “And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?”
13. “Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.”
14. “All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”
15. “Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?”
16. “Literature is… a game, but its game one can put one’s life into.”
17. “Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature.”
18. “The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.”
19. “After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the death of others.”
20. “We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.”
