In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

We live as we dream - alone.