It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.

It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.

You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.

Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.