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.

"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."

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.

You don't need anybody's permission to prove yourself, just prove yourself.

When I think of myself, I'm definitely... I'm not like a comedian.

Swallowing angry words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterwards.

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?

Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

Most people marry their mother. I married my father.