Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.