"Sorry, I didn't squat and grease myself and be naked next to Kim Lard-ashian. I mean, no matter what you do - excuse me - you can never compete with her. You can win the Nobel Peace Prize and you can't compete with Kim Lard-ashian's ass."

“Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.”

“Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.”

“It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.”

“I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“You are thirst and thirst is all I know”

Source : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (1995). “Dark and Perfect Angels”

“Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.”

“The heart with compassion is the temple of God.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Mar 24, 2017

“I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.”

Source : "'Never mind glass ceilings, what about glass skirting boards?'". Interview with Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2003.