I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating rejuvenating exciting and satisfying.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.