I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

I can't get myself when I'm not punctual. If I'm late for an appointment, even a bit, I don't feel good for a whole day.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.