I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.

From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.

The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.

I loved and lost and survived.

When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.

Walking away from my desert companions feels like cutting off a limb. How does one say good-bye to an arm? One doesn't, I suppose. One pretends it isn't happening.

Sometimes it's best to let your opponent think he has control.

Yes!" Belen raises his fist in a victory gesture. "We shall save the world from Invierne with slings!

Through every turn in life, through every little twist of fate, there is an opportunity to take a step back, find and reinvent yourself, and come back a bigger, stronger, better you.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Just open your eyes! I thought. These desperate poor are your gurus.

Fashion is a distraction!

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don't want my children seeing that.

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.