excerpts from Labyrinths, Selected stories and other writings. New York: New Directions. 1964.
"Centuries and centuries and only in the present do things happen; countless men in the air, on the face of the earth and the sea, and all that really is happening is happening to me..." p. 20, The Garden of the Forking Paths
"The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past." p. 22, The Garden of the Forking Paths
"I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world." p. 23, The Garden of the Forking Paths
"this rhapsody of incoherent terms" p. 65, Funes the Memorious
"Not only was it difficult for him to comprehend that the generic symbol dog embraces so many unlike individuals of diverse size and form; it bothered him that the dog at three fourteen (seen from the side) should have the same name as the dog at three fifteen (seen from the front)." p. 65, Funes the Memorious
"Two ro three times he reconstructed a whole day; he never hesitated, but each reconstruction had required a whole day." p. 64, Funes the Memorious
"May God forgive me; the prestige of being the recipient of an urgent telegram... the temptation to dramatize my suffering, affecting a virile stoicism, perhaps distracted me from all possibility of real sorrow." p. 62, Funes the Memorious