If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

A great soul was always born from a great insistence.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.

A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.

Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.

A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.

Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day!

Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential.

Free men have arms; slaves do not.