The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

If you think a complimentary thought about someone, don't just think it. Dare to compliment people and pass on compliments to them from others.

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.

You know, if you're trying to mark your territory, you could've just peed on me before I came over here and saved us both a lot of time!

Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.