One reason writers write is out of revenge.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.

One does not beg for a glass of water from the devil.

He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

It's not always what you know, but who you know. Get out and meet people.

When I grow, I'm going to be my mother.

The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.