Necessity has the face of a dog.

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

His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.