Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
Jose SaramagoI never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose SaramagoEvery thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
Jose Saramago