"Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.”

“The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.”

“Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.”

“What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.”

“Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.”

“He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter”

“Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.”

“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.”