All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.
When I first read The Rebel, this splendid line came leaping from the page like a dolphin from a wave. I memorized it instantly, and from then on Camus was my man. I wanted to write like that, in a pr...
No cries, no convulsions, nothing more than a face fixed in thought. The gods no longer existed, Christ didn’t exist yet, and there was, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius, a unique moment in which man wa...
Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.
Nationalism is the culture of the uncultivated, and they are legion. —MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, CONTRO VIENTO Y MAREA, P. 439
In Latin America, the United States behaved in the very way that Harold Pinter thinks it has always behaved everywhere.)
He has always held to the principle (which was also favoured by Stefan Zweig) that great artists are disqualified from being objective critics, because they are always thinking of how they would have...