The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

Prayer without gratitude is more like complaining.

The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact and inviolable.

In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.

Lo, I am the most stupendous in the land at my particular profession.

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.

I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a lot of things that I don't get, like I do wish I had more of my own.