Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Mga bata pa kayo. Pag pinaniwalaan namin kayong hindi kayo naglaro ng tubig kahit na basang-basa ang mga damit ninyo, kayo ang niloloko namin. Hindi kayo ang nakakapanloko.

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

Memories stuck under our shoes like thick mud

The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy.

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.

Maybe that's what is crazy: to want to be free. A lot of people wouldn't cross the street for it.

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.