El mundo habrá acabado de joderse -dijo entonces- el día en que los hombres viajen en primera clase y la literatura en el vagón de carga.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.