“It is not against the law to drink in public places, and you will see people drinking in parks or by the lake. The Swiss have a more relaxed attitude to alcohol consumption. From the age of 16, you...”

“When a new baby is expected mother has 9 months to prepare the family and the kitchen for her departure!”

“Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn't present always. I mean, often what you're meeting is a very mediocre person. But nonetheless, y...”

“I had enough of a story churning in my head that combined all the elements of the daythe interview, the concert, the after-partys private sessionwhen he put his guitar away and asked me if I had ev...”

“Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.”

“Cuando vayamos al maryo te dir mi secreto:Me envuelve, pero no es ola...Me amarga..., pero no es sal...”

“I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the memories we'll have when we're old.”

“We speak in Spanish when we make love. English seems an impossible language for intimacy.”