In life you have to avoid three geometric figures - vicious circles, love triangles and square minds

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

Males are simple creatures. If we can’t f**k it, we want to kill it.

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

The seed of every sin is in every heart.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

The power of the visible is the invisible.

Myself, I'm a pothead. It's no secret. Everyone knows that. I go on the road and forget everything else

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.

The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.