I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.

It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions.

Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt.

I don’t like the situation but I must endure.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

[Pablo Escobar] always told me that the day he used the phone would be his last day, something I had very clear while I was talking to him.

Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

The benefits of studying abroad are almost endless.

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.