Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility.

We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty.

Lopez made sandals out of one tire. He sold them at ten cents each, because people sometimes needed only one.

Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.

The world is in me and you are not even in the world yet.

The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.

Pity womankind, but never a woman.

My eyes are my greatest sin.

We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.

God, who calls a man, already knew the purpose of the calling

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

Love is the beauty of being.

A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

When you're writing‚ you're conjuring. It's a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.