57 Quotes by Rudolfo Anaya

I asked Go to answer my questions, but the only sound was always the whistling of the wind filling the empty space.

The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant. There is no need to fear men like Tenorio.

I think that if there is a hell it’s just a place where you’re left all alone, with nobody around you. Man, when you’re alone you don’t have to burn, just being by yourself for all of time would be the worst punishment the Old Man could give you.

Ay, every generation, every man is a part of his past. He cannot escape it, but he may reform the old materials, make something new.

I think most of the things we call evil are not evil at all; it is just that we don’t understand those things, and so we call them evil. And we fear evil only because we do not understand it.

Why are they like that?” I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek. “I don’t know,” Cico answered, “except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem to want to hurt each other – and it’s worse when they’re in a group.

I was drinking beer to kill time, the erotic and sensitive Mexican time which is so different from the clean-packaged, well-kept time of the Americanos. Time in Mexico is at times cruel and punishing, but it is never indifferent. It permeates everything, changes reality. Einstein would have loved Mexico because there time and space are one. I stare more often into empty space when I’m in Mexico.

I wonder what the years have gathered in the bags. I bet it’s like looking through old trunks, old letters and photographs, an old shoe or two.

Time forever. Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always.