The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.

A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

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