"Any life, however long and complicated it may be, is made up of a single moment — the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."

"A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals…"

"I have always been a man of many contradictions."

"Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger."

"I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost."