No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things