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.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.