Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

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

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

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.

Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.