If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.