Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.

Be respectful of words. They mean something.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.