Lilí Lanz

“Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you’re (linguistically) dead.”
― David Crystal, Language Play

“Hundirse en la locura no es una fatalidad, quizás es también una elección.”
― Anne-Sophie Brasme, Breathe

“Contar una película es como contar un sueño. Contar una vida es como contar un sueño o una película.”
― Hernán Rivera Letelier, La contadora de películas

“Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on his own can respond dramatically to what is proffered him. In contacts between such deities there is no need for middlemen; each of these gods is able to serve as his own priest.”
― Erving Goffman, Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior