Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah.

"How could you love something so destructive?" I ask. "Because this wolf doesn't care if your heart is whole or not," you say. "It tastes just the same."

The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

How could you love something so destructive?" I ask."Because this wolf doesn't care if your heart is whole or not, " you say. "It tastes just the same.

To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: "Loneliness is a type of violence.

I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah.""Hun, " Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing- if it is only yours it won't wake the dead, it will simply disturb the neighbours.

I'm not a jazz singer.

I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission.

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.

It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.