“Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From Dalí and El Greco, From the gloomy 'View of Toledo.' He was born before Cervantes.”

“If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?”

“Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.”

“Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote; La Mancha is not just geography; It is our personal territory—Terra Nostra.”

“Those in Argentina, Mexico and Peru, Colombia and the Caribbean Bear La Mancha and Quixote in their heartsFor he is an ultimate and overlooked Don Juan.”

“He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.”

“If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets.”