We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

Language is a virus from outer space.

But down in Florida in the early voting, there were computer glitches, confusing ballots, long lines and chaos. And when President Bush heard about this, he said, 'Mission accomplished!'

My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.

Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.

For tommorow belongs to those that prepare for it today.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

A man is related to all nature.

A man who brags about satisfying 30 women is immature. A real man is one who can satisfy the same woman for 30 years.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.