"The idea of reflections came to me in reading an observation by Pascal, cited in a book by W.H. Auden, who wrote an unusual kind of autobiography by collecting the quotations he had annotated in the course of his life, which is a good way of displaying oneself, as a reflection of these quotations."

Reflections and Shadows, Saul Steinberg with Aldo Buzzi (translated by John Shepley)