Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.

I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray.

One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context.

Singing seems as easy for her as talking is for us.

Resolution without routine is like a Ferrari without gas...it might look real good but it will get you no where.

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child