When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

Love is the outlaw's duty.

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.

Talk between women friends is always therapy.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

Some people sit at life’ banquet table while others serve them

He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

After I told my wife that black underwear turned me on, she didn't wash my Y-fronts for a month.

The desperate hope that the patient will be healed... That's the last treatment.

The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

If you look at America now as a giant ship, before we can turn it around and go the other way, we've got to stop. This has been our problem all along. We haven't really advanced anything we believe.