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"He listened to the hooting of many metal horns, the squealing of brakes, the calls of vendors selling red-purple bananas and jungle oranges in their stalls."
– Ray Bradbury
Calling Mexico
"Mazatlan becomes more vivid in retrospect: I recall cool patios glimpsed from sun-baked streets which sheltered coconut palms, strange lilies, banana trees."
– Edward Weston
The Daybooks
"The old woman stares out an open window, shards of sunlight pierce her face cutting shadows on skin. She is washing her hands after the dishes, dipping them into a sea of hues and shapes, a sea of syllables without sound, in a stone house in Merida, her Merida of dense Mexico."
– Luis Rodriguez
The Old Woman of Merida
"Round the centre of the covered market, where there is a basin of water, are the flowers: red, white, pink roses in heaps, many-coloured little carnations, poppies, bits of larkspur, lemon and orange marigolds, buds of madonna lilies, pansies, a few forget-me-nots. They don't bring the tropical flowers. Only the lilies come wild from the hills, and the mauve red orchids."
– D. H. Lawrence
Mornings in Mexico
"Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states..."
– Tennessee Williams
Night of the Iguana
"...the air is so pretty, the women sang so softly and sleepily, the music sounded so soothingly as we glided along the water, that I felt in a pleasant half-dreamy state of perfect contentment, and was sorry when arriving at the landing place, we had to return to a carriage and civilized life, with nothing but the garlands of flowers to remind us of the Chinampas."
– Frances Calderon de la Barca
Life in Mexico
Great Minds on Mexico
Forbes Traveler April 1, 2007
"He listened to the hooting of many metal horns, the squealing of brakes, the calls of vendors selling red-purple bananas and jungle oranges in their stalls."– Ray Bradbury
Calling Mexico
"The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love."
– Octavio Paz
– Octavio Paz
"Mazatlan becomes more vivid in retrospect: I recall cool patios glimpsed from sun-baked streets which sheltered coconut palms, strange lilies, banana trees."– Edward Weston
The Daybooks
"The old woman stares out an open window, shards of sunlight pierce her face cutting shadows on skin. She is washing her hands after the dishes, dipping them into a sea of hues and shapes, a sea of syllables without sound, in a stone house in Merida, her Merida of dense Mexico."– Luis Rodriguez
The Old Woman of Merida
"Round the centre of the covered market, where there is a basin of water, are the flowers: red, white, pink roses in heaps, many-coloured little carnations, poppies, bits of larkspur, lemon and orange marigolds, buds of madonna lilies, pansies, a few forget-me-nots. They don't bring the tropical flowers. Only the lilies come wild from the hills, and the mauve red orchids."– D. H. Lawrence
Mornings in Mexico
"At Mazatlan at dusk we stopped for awhile for a swim in our underwear in that magnificent surf..."
– Jack Kerouac
– Jack Kerouac
"Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states..."– Tennessee Williams
Night of the Iguana
"Shark fins glided like periscopes at the entrance to the Grijalva River, the scene of the Conquistadores' first landing in Mexico, before they sailed on to Veracruz."
– Graham Greene
Another Mexico
– Graham Greene
Another Mexico
"...the air is so pretty, the women sang so softly and sleepily, the music sounded so soothingly as we glided along the water, that I felt in a pleasant half-dreamy state of perfect contentment, and was sorry when arriving at the landing place, we had to return to a carriage and civilized life, with nothing but the garlands of flowers to remind us of the Chinampas."– Frances Calderon de la Barca
Life in Mexico
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