Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character—the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'

In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.