I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine, enormous.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ.

For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.

The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.

I've been the saddest while I've been the most successful, strangely.

As far as being a coach, it's always fascinated me. It's a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you're dealing with people.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.