You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

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.

Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.

There is no greater glory than to die for love.

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