"There are many worlds. Each is different. Each is important. And one must learn with them, because these other worlds, these other cultures, are mirrors in which we can see ourselves, thanks to which we understand ourselves better - for we cannot define our own identity until having confronted that of others, as comparison." Travels with Herodotus, Ryszard Kapuściński.

Music: Jazz (Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Glenn Miller, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone); Classical (Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven, Scriabin, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Verdi, Dvořák, Smetana, Mahler, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Strauss, Wagner, Ravel, Grieg, Villa-Lobos); Brazilian (Cartola, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Tom Jobim, Toquinho, Jorge Ben Jor, João Gilberto, Elis Regina, Gal Costa, Maria Gadú, Novos Baianos, Natiruts...); solo singers (Amy Winehouse! Jorja Smith, Mayra Andrade, Pauline Croze, Céu, Rodrigo Amarante, Tash Sultana, Ben L’Oncle Soul and many many others); Rock (Pink Floyd, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns n’ Roses, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Black Keys, The Strokes, The Kooks...) and so on. Movies: anything by Kubrick, Nolan or Tarantino. TV shows: Mr. Robot, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, The Handmaid’s Tale, Westworld, Black Mirror, Breaking Bad, Narcos, The Crown, Sherlock, HTGAWM, etc. (mostly sci-fi and political/historical stuff). Books: history, international relations, modern literature (Márquez, Saramago, Kafka, Camus), Nietzsche for cloudy days, Brazilian poetry (Vinicius de Moraes, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Machado de Assis, Mario Quintana, Manoel Bandeira, Ariano Suassuna, Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst, Cecília Meireles, Cora Coralina, Paulo Leminski)