I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.

I love you more than my own skin.

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.

Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.