Jorge Luis Borges

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I love 'Time Bandits;' it's great.