Maybe you gotta understand what punk meant to us. With the Minutemen, punk was not a style of music. It was the state of your mind. We thought the style of music was up to each band. For us punk meant if you find yourself not fitting in a certain kind of world, you try to create your own.

What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years

No matter what time you get out of bed, go for a walk and then work, he’d say, because the demons hate it when you get out of bed, demons hate fresh air. So when I make up excuses not to work, I hear his voice in my head: Get up, get out, go to your work.

[Hablando de sus últimos días, mira con nostalgia los libros que no va a poder leer] Borges dijo que miraba con nostalgia aquellos que no podría releer.

Its rather healthy to imagine other things for example, one way of acquiring new certainties is to learn to doubt together.

Todas las tierras están abiertas al sabio, pues la patria de un alma virtuosa es el universo.