What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

We will reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers, the forgotten people. Workers. We're going to take care of our workers.

We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.

You might be a redneck if there is a sheet hanging in your closet and a gun rack hanging in your truck.

American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an impressive line up and continual demand.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

Everything was invented when somebody was alone.