There is no rule on how to write.

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.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.