To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

Life itself is a quotation.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.