I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

The best writing is certainly when you are in love

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.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

'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.'

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.