The best way to fill time is to waste it.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Don’t be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again.

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.

You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike.

You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been.

...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.

I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.

No water, No life.

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it.

It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.

We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him.

The battlefield is cold... it is the lonesomest place which men share together.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses.

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.