Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.

Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for I even used words without really knowing what they meant.

For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.