If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

Buying art is not understanding art.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

I'm not the number-one guy here ... if it translates to winning, I don't mind taking a step back as far as roles.

I know winning 20 is a special kind of thing, but I'd rather get into the playoffs, and be strong for the playoffs.

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.