Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I have written a good number of drafts and small reflections. They are not waiting for the last touch but for the sunlight to wake them up.

The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."

Es asombrosa la cantidad de baratijas convencionales a las que recurrimos al expresarnos por impreso. La mayoría de los escritores asumen la expresión de quienes posan para el retrato de un pintor. Recorridos de la pose y el compromiso, escalón por escalón.