“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.”

“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.”

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

“If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.”

“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.”

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