The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.