There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).

It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.

Every hundred feet the world changes

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.