Jorge Luis Borges — "I have always been a man of many contradictions."

"I am not a philosopher. I am a man of letters. I am a man of words."

"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."

"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…"

"Everything that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."

"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."