"wisdom comes to us when it can..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.”

“Shame has poor memory.”

“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.”

“A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.”

“Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity--Early to bed and early to riseMake a man healthy and wealth and wise.As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.”

“Doubt is the beginning of wisdom”

“I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.”

“In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.”

“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.”