Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

I've known how to control my anger, but that doesn't mean I don't feel it. Page 190

He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell.

At the end of the day, I only trust my family.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.

I love going to the hair salon. I'm Spanish. I think it's more of a Latina thing to go to the hair salon.

In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.