كلُّ ما يحدث لنا، حتى مذلّاتنا وإخفاقاتنا وإحراجاتنا، يُعطى لنا مادةً خامًا، كالطين، لنُشكّل منه فنّنا.

“All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”Jorge Luis Borges — Twenty-four Conversations with Borges, Including a Selection of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981-1983