In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

In woman sex corrects banality, in men it aggravates it.

Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?

The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.

There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.