For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.
I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway. Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best. I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers.
We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.
Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.
I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight.
In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.