Neil Mars?! I could blame him for having killer looks but he could not be faulted for this. He couldn’t have chosen that name for himself. No wonder he tortures his Mom by calling her by her name.

Never make eye contact with a stranger when you’re having a churro.

Kids' lives are just as important and difficult as grown ups'.

A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

I am too pure for you or anyone.