Cease, cows, life is short.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.