Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

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

Sometimes we need boldness, creativity and wisdom to enforce the change we want in us and others.

I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.

Chinese don't really believe in markets. They like stability, they like control.

You know what I gave to Russia? You know what I gave? Nothing.

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.

You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone.