"How could you love something so destructive?" I ask. "Because this wolf doesn't care if your heart is whole or not," you say. "It tastes just the same."

I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah.

Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

How could you love something so destructive?" I ask."Because this wolf doesn't care if your heart is whole or not, " you say. "It tastes just the same.

To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: "Loneliness is a type of violence.

I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah.""Hun, " Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.

God is always present He is never absent God is always on timeHe is never late

It was my kingdom. And when enemies attack your kingdom, you don’t flee. You show them why it’s your kingdom.

An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently.

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.

I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.

Time - the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.

My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.