We can always find a cause for suspicion if we look for it.

People are cagey, they don’t like to get involved. And they always side with the one who is trying to get away.

Spontaneity is the mother of crudity.

Never hope, to avoid disappointment; consider myself dead, to keep from dying.

Ya no estoy muerto, estoy enamorado.

Llega un momento en la vida en que, haga uno lo que haga, solamente aburre. Queda entonces una manera de recuperar el prestigio: morir.

Todo lo que he escrito sobre mi destino – con esperanzas o con temor, en broma o en serio – me mortifica.

Creo que parte de mi amor a la vida se lo debo a mi amor a los libros.

Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.

To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost).