I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.

I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.

All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.

We all give up great expectations along the way.