We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.

The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.

Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.

Harry Style's hair is probably the greatest thing on this planet.

I'm the kind of person that thinks that you should get what you deserve in what you show, with actions, not with words.

Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.

I prefer older people to college kids [as audience] for the most part. I want people with life experience, people that understand where I'm coming from.

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.