"I am a blind man, but I have seen the world."

"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."

"I am not sure that I exist, in fact. I am all the writers I have read, all the people I have met, all the women I have loved; all the cities I have visited, all the ancestors I have had."

"I have always been a coward. I have never dared to live."

"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…"