Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

"All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate."

"Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word."

"In quoting others, we cite ourselves."

"Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word."