The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and ourselves.

Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera