The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

In dreams, as in the Gospels, one usually possesses the gift of tongues.

Isn't reality an insatiable AIDS-riddled whore?

Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children.

The truth is like a strung-out pimp in the middle of a storm.

People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth.

One never knows anything about one's father. A father ... is a passageway immersed in the deepest darkness, where we stumble blindly seeking a way out.

History, which is a simple whore, has no decisive moments but is a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one another in monstrousness.

Coincidence, if you'll permit the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

Wonderful, wonderful, yet again the sword of fate severs the head from the hydra of chance.

Nothing is ever behind us.