The Damned Yard

” That's usually the case. The ones we want to see do not come in the hours when we think of them and when we expect them the most, and they appear at some point when we are farthest from them with our thoughts. And our joy because of seeing them again needs time to rise from the bottom, where it is suppressed, and appear on the surface ... ”

“With people who become close to us, we usually forget all those details of the first contact with them; it seems to us that we have always known them and that they have always been with us. From all that, sometimes only an unrelated image emerges in the memory. ”

“If you want to know what a state and its administration are like, and what their future is like, just look to find out how many honest and innocent people there are in prisons in that country, and how many criminals and criminals are at large. ”