Julio Cortazar

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.