There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.