The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

Don't open that door,' she said. 'The hallway is full of difficult dreams.' And I asked her: 'How do you know?' And she told me: 'Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.

Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.