The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

It is important not to trust people too much.

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.