I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'