We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
Ariel DorfmanBeware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous harm, proclaiming that only your pain matters in this world. More than against that person's body, you will then, at that moment, be committing a crime against your own imagination.
Ariel DorfmanMost writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.
Ariel DorfmanLife may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.
Ariel Dorfman