"You had grown and were strong and handsome; I was always in your shadow, with no light of my own and no one to discov…"

"Most men worry about leaving their fleeting shadow on the slippery surface of history, but I knew that my life had al…"

"Every day that I said nothing the silence became more and more necessary. The silence was as still as stagnant water.…"

"Who holds sway, the gods or man? I couldn't pray to the gods because I was going to be impure, but man, the man who s…"

"Thus it is that the man who invokes the dragon becomes his slave and has to feed the swollen belly and its insatiable…"

"It happens that one day the children begin to draw, and everything that was missing in that narrow, enclosed world be…"

"what can be affirmed is too limited, too small. The not is much more imaginative; prohibition inspires inquiry. ("Thi…"

"Sometimes you have to exaggerate to rectify, to adjust and upgrade the vision ("This is Not a Prologue")"

"If the 20th century was the century of disillusionment, as I have called it, the 21st is that of absolute stupidity. …"

"The guts and the skin. The innocent and the prudish. Writing from the gut: about the unseen, the unknown, the absolut…"