But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.