"The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study."

"If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades."

"Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible!"

"Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize."

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."

"We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence."

"We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it."

"Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts."

"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live"

"The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it."

"One hand has surely worked throughout the universe."

"Our aspirations are our possibilities."

"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."

"Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing."

"My dear friend, clear your mind of can't."

"It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it."

"Nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing."

"It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it."

"Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are."

"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

"Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that."

"He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window."

"If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist."

"You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you,."