''New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.''
''In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.''
''Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.''
''The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.''
''To see you naked is to recall the Earth.''