“I had to smile to myself. In only a day or two, life seemed different from the way I'd always conceived of it. Complicated and very simple at the same time.”

“I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays...”

“What a relief to be away from the stares of those extraordinary beings!”

“Pentru că îmi place să-i privesc pe dinăuntru... Să-i văd gândind. Din ce fel de idei sunt făcute gândurile lor? Şi ce simt ei, atunci când se îndrăgostesc de mine? Adevăru-i că, dacă stai să te gândeşti bine, jocul e cam plictisitor, căci au nişte şiretlicuri copilăreşti, mereu aceleaşi.”

“The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.”

“Esos desechos de celuloide, esos sobrantes en la película del recuerdo de mi vida son los que hoy intento proyectar en la pantalla de la memoria, los que hoy me parecen, aun en su confusión, tan vívidos y tan cercanos.”

“Най-сетне бавно, влачейки на раменете си чувалите на облаците, тръгнах към къщи.”