I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.

For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself.

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too

Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.

I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!

When stuck, hit the road.

You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.

Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla? Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.

Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.

Sometimes all thats left is faith.

You found us, and then lied to us so you could get a job?

The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.

Two seconds are a thousand years.

Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.

Her affection for everything she could love increased.

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

Without gratitude and appreciation for what you already have, you’ll never know true fulfillment.