The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

The way you look at me even if we're surrounded by crowd, is the thing makes me fall in love with you all over again..<3

The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.

There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow more precious than a pot of gold.

I've got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out

It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

If you say something, then it exposes you.

Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.