Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.

The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.

We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.

All good art is an indiscretion.

I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

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