Everyone in his place and a place for everyone.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived.

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in love.