“Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.”

“Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.”

“Deja que toda tu nostalgia emigre, todos tus cabos sueltos; comienza, todos los días en el parto.”

“I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.”

“La muerte espera al más valiente, al más rico, al más bello. Pero los iguala al más cobarde, al más pobre, al más feo, no en el simple hecho de morir, ni siquiera en la conciencia de la muerte, sino en la ignorancia de la muerte. Sabemos que un día vendrá, pero nunca sabemos lo que es.”

“There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.”

“You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past.”