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“Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag”
Source : Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor
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“Is there a wrong way to say "I don't know"? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b) in the spirit of opening ourselves up to hearing, to learning, to receiving. When we say "I don't know" under these conditions, the words can forge connection, healing, growth. But when we resist or disavow knowledge, when we profess ignorance as a way of donning armor and evading accountability, then we make a mockery of those words, and we rupture connections not only with others but within ourselves, within our souls.”
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“The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.”
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“All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.”
Source : Interview with James Cramer at Kemper Insurance Open in Potomac, Maryland, www.asapsports.com. June 3, 2000. 
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“Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed”
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“Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter”
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“The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.”
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“I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas”
