“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”

“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.”

“Your child is a product of time”

“If you are forcing it, you are doing it wrong”

“Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.”

“The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.”

“There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn’t drive us mad.”

“The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters—it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too soon and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness.”

“…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.”

“I’ll see you in my dreams.”

“Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.”

“Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.”

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it”

“-¿Cómo sabes que hay un Dios?-¡Por la razón!-¿Qué es la razón?-Es un don doble: innato y adquirido-¿Dónde tiene su asiento?-En el corazón. desde el corazón asciende al cerebro y se establece ahí.”

“I don’t care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations…I don’t think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren’t there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?”