Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

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

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.

La verdad, es que en el fondo soy un fatalista. Si a uno le llega la hora, da lo mismo un Boeing que la puntual maceta que se derrumba sobre uno desde un séptimo piso

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.

The challenge may not go away when you pray, and when it doesn't go away, it simply means God believes that He has trained you enough to face it and win.

A goal is a dream taken seriously.

Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.

No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.

In the moment you ask, and believe and know you already have it in the unseen, the entire Universe shifts to bring it into the seen.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

Pro wrestling is what my dad did.