I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.

Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.

I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.

I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

Defeat serves to enlighten us.

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

Whatever God wants is fine by me. . . . I've had the very best life. I have tasted beauty

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.