I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?

The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, "What are my big scenes?" and then get every drop of juice out of

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.