Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.

To read and write is a paradise.

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.