"The universe is a library, and I am a librarian."

"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 people. A s…"

"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 that I have visited, all the ancestors that…"

"The world is a maze, and I am lost in it."

"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."