“When we speak, we write what we are saying in the air.”

“I'll be frank and say that we were deluded when we signed the contract [with the U. S. ]. We should have sought to buy other jet fighters like British, French and Russian to secure the air cover for our forces; if we had air cover we would have averted what had happened.”

“What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.”

“If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.”

“Once we reject lyricism, to blacken a page becomes an ordeal: what's the use of writing in order to say exactly what we had to say?”

“Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak.

Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.”

“We are not indeed obliged always to speak what we think, but we must always think what we speak.”

“We are speaking of life, because whenever we speak of universities, we speak of life.
What are you? If I were asked that question right now, I would have to say that you are life, you are symbols of life.”

“Just write. Just write. Just write. [...]
When we are in the heart of writing it doesn't matter where we are. We can write anyplace.”

“Today we play guitar. We shall not speak or write. We just play and maybe drink some blood of virgins.”