Borges and Language

"Lopez Lecube: Do you lie, Borges? 

Borges: Not voluntarily. But I can lie, language is so limited compared to what we think and feel that we are obliged to lie, words themselves are lies. Stevenson said that in five minutes of any man's life things happen that all of Shakespeare's vocabulary and talents would be unable to describe adequately. Language is a clumsy tool and that can oblige one to lie."

Jorge Luis Borges, The Last Interview and Other Conversations