Truth is the safest lie.

Ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders

What you don't see with your eyes don't invent with your tongue.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.

The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law.

The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.

Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.

The hardest work is to go idle.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

It turns out there is only one possible thing to do in this circumstance, to wait the only way there is to wait through eternity, and that is through creativity.

To do what is right can be a dirty messy business" S. R. Tabone. Made it up for my Godfifa novel.

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

Everything begins as an internal reality and then is externalized through perception.

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

To me, a good event is governed by the audience.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

Fidel Castro is loved down into the children. The Revolution won't die!

Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat.

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.