I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.

For us to accomplish our goals, it will be necessary to transform our political culture, to respect plurality, and to build, among ourselves, bridges and more bridges.

I am a regular writer in Mexico, and I always tell the truth in my writings.

I am an undiplomatic diplomat.

I believe that I have always told the truth.

I don't see how can I offend Mexicans with the truth. It is what Mexicans want to hear.

Individuals move and shift from one party to another simply on their aspirations for office.

Mexico has never been anybody's backyard.

Mexico is intensely affected by all kinds of things that are shipped into this country from the United States.

My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.

Servants are not allowed to ask questions. They are only supposed to follow orders. That attitude has to change. But in order for it to change, there has to be radical improvement in the quality of the intelligence produced by the Mexican government.

The Informe should no longer be the scene used to insult, beat, and criticize on the basis of preconfigured conceptions.

The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.

The political parties have lost their loyalties.

The understanding that the political and intellectual class of the United States has of Mexico is a country whose position is that of a back yard.

Trust comes from deeds.

We don't have to be rude with each other; we have to be diplomatic.

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but wonder - 'What are the people I know going to think about this?' So I have to remind myself that all is permissible. Art has to be a free space. Language has to be a free space.

I literally got a private invite for lunch with the Queen. There was just 10 of us. And I was absolutely petrified because you can't take anyone with you, and no other sportspeople were there. There was the head of the military, and then the Queen sat next to me.

As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went to school for music production, but I know exactly how a song should sound and how to give an artist direction.

It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

We are accountable for what happened at Dan River and have learned from this event.

Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected because deep ecological awareness ultimately is spiritual awareness.

I've always been that person: If it gets into my head, I've got to do it until I get it perfect - a perfectionist's attitude.

For often when one is asleep there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.

I don't want to die without any scars.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. So save your anger and jealousy sweetheart, don't allow your own emotion to hurt you!

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.