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“Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.”
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“I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.”
Source : "Balanced?". Interview with Stevie Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.
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“The truth about stories is, that's all we are.”
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“In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.”
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“Bathe in the splendor of your own Light.”
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“God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life.”
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“it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.”
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“For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldn’t last for very long and I’d be sad again and then it would be worse because it’s one thing to be sad and it’s another thing to be sad once you’ve been happy. Being sad after you’ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.”
Source : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.195, Cinco Puntos Press