Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

Surrealism runs through the streets.

In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.