Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

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?

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.