Pablo > Pablo's Quotes

“Mortal fear is the ghetto of the human soul, to be free of it something like the psychic equivalent of inheriting a hundred million dollars.”
― Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

“This is the magical realism of NAFTA - Mexico, the birthplace of corn, is now importing surplus corn from el Norte - millions of tons driving the price down so campesinos can't afford to grow it. Exporting people and importing corn. It is backwards, no?”
― John Vaillant, The Jaguar's Children

“I added that it was no fun to grow old, but that the compensation for it was that time turned your mental shit-detector into a highly calibrated instrument.”
― Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town