The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.