The Uruguayans have a sort of purity. I don't know where they got it, and I doubt even if they know from where they got it. Perhaps they didn't kill off their major population.

The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world.

Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit.

He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.

Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road.

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.

You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?