Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation.

A fallow field is a sin.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

All great and precious things are lonely.