A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

I’ve only written one science-fiction book: ‚Fahrenheit 451.‘ That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

I feel Anglo-American.

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

I rewrote the ending to ‚Farewell to Arms,‘ the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.

I read poetry to save time.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I’m an Irish man.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‚The Colour of Magic‘ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‚The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.‘

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

The mainstream is always under attack.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

It is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

America is just downright mean.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

I’m the only person you’ve ever met who has read Longfellow.