"When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]"
"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited."
"Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."
"Life itself is a quotation."
"Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time."
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."