Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is, from the words by which we clumsily name them, but everything seems to indicate that it uses these laws for aims and objectives that transcend and always will transcend our understanding.

...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.