Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.