In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep

The ‘No Excuses’ mindset is not only composed of net worth, but also self worth and network.

You are the ocean, let the rivers come to you. You are the flower, let the bees come to you.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

I wanted to portray a newly democratized, enclosed society. I wanted to show how extraordinarily fluid people are in their embrace of other human beings.

We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

You're barely even wearing a shirt! What are you going to do if a mugger jumps out at you, flash them?