When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]
The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.
When a writer dies, he becomes his books.
Paradise will be a kind of library
Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountai...
I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and f...
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable image...
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
What you really value is what you miss not what you have.