Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am.

The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say.

People are complicated, ” she said. “Didn’t they teach you that in biography school?

In March of that year, I saw a man named Paul Barkley shot to death. It happened late at night in the parking lot of a café in Santa Rosa called Galileo’s.

Take a seat, Charlie, ” he said. “I’ll kill you in a few minutes. It’ll be good for you.

If they’re together long enough, every couple has one conversation over and over. This was ours.

The poor serve the elite, and they have too much fear to stop. So the poor get poorer, and the elite stay safe and powerful.

Miranda doesn't dream, she simply rests. When Miranda's eyes are at ease, her mind is at peace.

You really don't know a person until you spend some time in their panties.

People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets

The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.

An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.

Method is the arithmetic of success.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

There will always be a spiritual light that beckons to us, giving us the hope of rescue and relief.

Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.