Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.

For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

"Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.