Garden of forking path

I love borges and his labyrinths- you must read him. I am surprised he never received nobel prize for literature but i feel he is bigger than any novel prize

Then I reflected that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me" - Revisiting Garden of Forking Paths

"Not for nothing am I the greatgrandson of Ts'ui Pen. He was Governor of Yunnan and gave up temporal power to write a novel with more characters than there are in the Hung Lou Meng, and to create a maze in which all men would lose themselves---
--He spent thirteen years on these oddly assorted tasks before he was assassinated by a stranger. His novel had no sense to it and nobody ever found his labyrinth."

"The evening was at once intimate and infinite."