“Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese”

“The bar . . . is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable - and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.”

“Thank God I'm an atheist!”

“Deus e a Pátria são um time imbatível; eles quebram todos os recordes de opressão e derramamento de sangue.”

“The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.”

“I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.”

“Today`s culture is unfortunately inseparable from economic and military power. A ruling nation can impose its culture and give a worldwide fame to a second-rate writer like (Ernest Hemingway). (John Steinbeck) is important due to American guns. Had (John Dos Passos) and (William Faulkner) been born in Paraguay or in Turkey, who`d read them?”