What we need is endless courage.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

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

All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.