“I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense of death.”

“She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.”

“He thought the column was magnificent, everything it said about old age was the best he had ever read, and it made no sense to end it with a decision that seemed more like a civil death.”

“Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.”

“It is life, more than death, that has no limits.”

“my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house”

“He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”