If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.

The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens.

His guilt swelled up, churning like a paddle wheel in his stomach. He wanted desperately to flee. How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

I'll have no husband, if you be not he.

Dear my little children I work hard so as to make your lives better. so don't rest until you do thesame to your own children.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

I know I am--that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

There is no one in the world that lives without sin.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.

We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.