No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Surrealism runs through the streets.

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.