Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.

Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

Music is important for one's health.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

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.