42 Quotes by Cesar Aira

He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for the present.

Everyone likes ice cream," he said, white with rage. The mask of patience was slipping, and I don't know how I managed to hold back my tears. "Everyone except you, son, because you're a moron.

Literature is a toy for adults; my books are toys for adults who have read Lautréamont.

Literature is the queen of the arts —the greatest of them all, because it embraces them all. When you write, you are making music, painting, drawing, cinema...

After thirty years working as a commercial fiction translator, I've reached to the conclussion that, on average, the more pages a book has, the less literature there is in it.

...the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning.

Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this visible and tangible thing we hold in our hands, with no folds left hidden in the past.

I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs...

La tristeza inherente al recuerdo proviene de que su objeto es el olvido.