"Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole."

“I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went all the way to Las Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way.”

“Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.”

“It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.”

Source : "Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" by Companhia das Letras, (p. 34), 1992.

“Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.”

“There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.”

“Which one is the most important between trust, hope and love? Loyalty.”

“For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.”

“'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.”