I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Tomorrow is the only future we have. Let’s live to love it!

A human being has no discernible character until he acts.

A man must get a thing before he can forget it.

We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

See the music, hear the dance.

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

There is nothing you can control about love.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.