It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.

Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?

Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.