Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.

Everything is theater.

I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

My homeland is the portuguese language.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness

I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.