Cada vez que te enamores no expliques a nadie nada, deja que el amor te invada sin entrar en pormenores

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.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there.

I don't really love computers.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

The only way to shut out the voice of god and the angels is to act out addictively whether it’s alcohol or food or drugs, or behaviors...

Love is full of imagination.

Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.

Young love don't know nothin' when the radio plays you sing along. When she's holding on you just can't get close enough, you swear it's sent from above. It's real,it's good, and it's young love

Then, as one hand tightened on me and his other ran gently over my hair, I noticed something. He didn't smell right.