One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin.

Well, this has been some shit.

If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.

Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.

I don't want to be on the bandwagon of dogging any president or anybody in positions where they have all these different constituencies.

I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

There is also the guitar player Pat Metheny with whom I'd like to work with: he is so elegant and so emotional when he plays that I am sure that, together, we could make a good team.

I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.