Quotes About Transition

En su lugar, me voy a vivir a Madrid. Que es algo bastante parecido a la muerte.

Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

It has been seven years since you died. Of course what I'll say next is that time has flown by. I got old. All of a sudden, de repente. I walk with difficulty. I even drool. I leave the door unlocked in case I die in my sleep, but it's more likely I'll go endlessly on until I get put away someplace. I am already dotty.... It's not so strange that I talk to my cat but I feel silly because he is totally deaf.

Cleaning women: You will get a lot of liberated women. First stage is a CR group; second stage is a cleaning woman; third, divorce.)

Antes de conocerlo se había sentido muy sola. Le conté que por las mañanas yo decía el nombre de Max incluso antes de abrir los ojos. Ella me dijo que su vida había sido como escuchar un disco horrible una y otra vez, cada día, y en un instante le habían dado vuelta al disco, y sonaba música. Max la oyó y me sonrió. Ves, amor, ahora estamos en la cara B. (Del cuento Hasta la vista)

Watcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?... I'll do macrame, punk.

Toda luna, todo año, todo día, todo viento camino, y pasa también. También, toda sangre llega al lugar de su quietud. (Libros de Chilam Balam)

Oh, Mel, what am I going to do? Quit teaching? Travel? Get a doctorate? Commit suicide? Where did that thought come from?

A lo que me refiero es que ahora estoy aquí por un tiempo indefinido, pero ¿luego qué, adónde iré? (Del cuento Panteón de Dolores)

On the plane to Mexico City, I thought about how death shreds time. My ordinary life had vanished.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Not lost, but gone before.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

When immortal Death has taken mortal life.

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.