Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

Positive Thinking does not mean that you never fail, It simply means that you have the courage to try again until you succeed.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

Sarah...loved the way the light lit the silence first thing in the morning.

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.

It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people think are well drawn

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

People are ashamed to admit they need a revival.

I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

The only way to save yourself is to endeavor to save others.