When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

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

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People don’t believe that hard work is worth it.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

Because love was a light that wouldn't allow darkness to reign in his soul.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.

Cradles are the most powerful pinning combination known to man