I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

[P]eople with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.

Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.