In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.

Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and Ave Maria like dearest is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves - it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.