“My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.”

“It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”

“My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.”

“To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box.”

“What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.”

“True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.”