"Better to die standing, than to live on your knees"
— Emiliano Zapata (Documentos ineditos sobre Emiliano Zapata y el Cuartel General: Seleccionados del archivo de Genovevo de la O, que conserva el Archivo General de la Nacion)

"Mineral cactai,
quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls,
the bird that punctures space,
thirst, tedium, clouds of dust,
impalpable epiphanies of wind.
The pines taught me to talk to myself.
In that garden I learnedto send myself off.
Later there were no gardens. "
— Octavio Paz (A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems)

"I'd rather be thin than famous
but I'm fat
paste that in your broadway show "
— Jack Kerouac

"(We loved Mother too, completely, but we were finding out, as Father was too, that it is good for parents and for children to be alone now and then with one another...the man alone or the woman, to sound new notes in the mysterious music of parenthood and childhood.)

That night I not only saw my Father for the first time as a person. I saw the golden hills and the live oaks as clearly as I have ever seen them since; and I saw the dimples in my little sister's fat hands in a way that still moves me because of that first time; and I saw food as something beautiful to be shared with people instead of as a thrice-daily necessity."
— M.F.K. Fisher (The Gastronomical Me)

"…out of the city’s eighty-five thousand streets, there are about eight hundred fifty called Juárez, seven hundred fifty named Hidalgo, and seven hundred known as Morelos. Two hundred are called 16 de Septiembre, while a hundred more are called 16 de Septiembre Avenue, Alley, Mews, or Extension…"
— David Lida