“English translation: Life of lives, beginning to the end. We are alive forever.”

“Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.”

“In those early amorphous years of life, when memory had only just begun, when life was full of Beginnings and no Ends, and everything was Forever”

“One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one.”

“The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.”

“English translation of the Spanish language text.”

“We must never lose sight of the deep and indestructible connections between translation/literature and life. If what we write is to have a chance of living on the page, then we must also live, we must observe life, we must experience and learn to transmute that experience. Translators no less than creative writers.”

“English translation of Spanish lyric in Cuba Libre”

“What we celebrate today is not a victory of party or of individuals. What we celebrate is a beginning as well as an end; a change as well as a restoration. A beginning to end poverty, and misery; a beginning to end ignorance and hopelessness; and a beginning to restore all that is good, beautiful and sublime in our lives as one people under God.”

“A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.”