Hate and love are reciprocal passions.

When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.

Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".

Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.

Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.