If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

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

Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.

The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die — with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch.