While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.

Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.

The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.