As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.

In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.

I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking.

In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.

I hope Mr. Obama has success.

We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.

I ran my tongue along the top of his underwear, letting it slide underneath. Then i shifted my body forward, lips moving back up his chest, until i was straddling him again.

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.

Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular.

So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

People fall out of love, or get married for the wrong reasons. People change. The older generation - they got married and had a kid when they were 20. How do you know who you are when you're 20?

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.