Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.
The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater. . . The word "Art" should be written everywhere, in the auditorium and in the dressing rooms, before the word "Business" gets written there.
To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth.
Ever since I got married I've been thinking night and day about whose fault it was, and every time I think about it, out comes a new fault to eat up the old one; but always there's a fault left.
I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords.
What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.
So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.
That's a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.
The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.