What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.

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.

Allow me to remove my headphones to listen to your bullshit.

Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.

Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.

It is a kingly act to help the fallen.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.