Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever.

When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.

Laughter is a gift from God that opens the heart.

Man needs difficult times for reflection and personal growth.

The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer.

I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The best songs don't get recorded; the best recordings don't get released; and the best releases don't get played.

We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.

All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future.

All my life is in Spain. I will stay.

Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.