No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

We will have a massive, massive tax increase under Hillary Clinton's plan.

Whether you believe you can or not, you're right.

Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

From the time I got the first couple of scripts [of Jessica Jones], I always felt that this was groundbreaking material and a groundbreaking character.

So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds