37 Quotes by Warren Eyster

Feeling the inevitable claim of the this desert, he experienced a desire to throw off his civilized costume, hurl himself upon Josephina, either succumb, or return to Guadalajara, where men could only complain of having too many buttons to button or unbutton...

Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.

He would have been careful not to violate his conscience in any way that might keep him from devoting his full attention to the sin he had decided to commit. Pedro was not really very different from all men, at least in that. Not very different from the bank teller who makes sure to give every customer exact change, even while he is embezzling.

The world is in me and you are not even in the world yet.

Fiestas always began as if they were being held in a parlor, amid teacups.

Out of the mouths of babes comes only bubbles. Out of the mouths of men like me, only babble.

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.

Already he was realizing that he would be more ashamed of her in the city than he was here. Then, quite suddenly, he was not ashamed of her, but of himself. Deeply ashamed.