Gosto de imaginar que não é a decadência que nos mata mas a obscuridade que nos conduz até ela como uma íman.
I like to imagine that is not the decay that kills us but the darkness that leads us to it as a magnet.

Tal como a disfunção eréctil, a disfunção intelectual, que afecta um número crescente de ilustres membros das elites intelectualóides, caracteriza-se pela impotência de manter erecto um pensamento coerente.
As the erectile dysfunction, intellectual dysfunction, which affects a growing number of distinguished members of the elites, is characterized by the impotence of keeping erect a coherent thought.

Se o problema são os demónios estrangula-os com a tua loucura.
If the problem is the demons strangle them with your madness.

Receio que a poesia é pior que o sexo tântrico: não mexe nem sai de cima.
I'm afraid that poetry is worse than tantric sex: it does not not move or get off.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.

Rust may never sleep, but then, neither does moss.