The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence.

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.

It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

Americans have discovered fear.

Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.