The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, "I'm home."

memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.

You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.

Knowing when to be silent makes you seem wiser beyond your years.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire.

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.