You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.