These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

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.