We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.