In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

Kino heard the little splash of morning waves on the beach. It was very good -- Kino closed his eyes again to listen to his music.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

The land is so much more than its analysis.