“I ran up the street. All the way to Largo da Camara. Got there very tired. Mad, rather than tired. Uninvited old man. Little shits. They'll see who's the uninvited old man, motherfuckers. ”

“People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

“Serán necesarios largos años", escribe Václav Havel, "antes de que los valores que se apoyan en la verdad y la autenticidad morales se impongan y se lleven por delante al cinismo político; pero, al final, siempre acaban venciendo." Ésta debe ser también la paciente apuesta del verdadero periodismo.”

“When is this old moneybags doing to give up and die as any decent man would do? I am tired of standing at his door.”

“And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.”

“It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.”

“Zdepasto i grbavo deblo drveta nikada ne bi povjerovalo da može postati statua, zadivljujuće umjetničko djelo, i nikada se ne bi podložilo dlijetu kipara, koji svojim genijem proniče što sve može načiniti od tog debla”