Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

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.