I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

Ideas do not need weapons.