Without democracy freedom is a chimera

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

Elizabeth’s tears had wrung my heart: I longed to enfold her in my arms, to comfort her, but I knewit would be infamous indeed to take such advantage of her distress.

You can beat the Bear once but never the same way twice.

Hands have not tears to flow.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

There is no such thing as a paper loss. A paper loss is a very real loss.

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

I dont really believe in regrets.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.