Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority.

Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage? Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night.

It's funny, these days, if you want money, you can create an App or some kind of tech thing and make a billion dollars.

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.