In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

Schools teach ignorance.

In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.

Latin America is part of the world which was for many years condemned to the system of power where intimidation had more strength than the vote.

Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire