Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

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.

Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.