The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

One should read Borges more.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

Nothing is ever behind us.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.

There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.