Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

Necessity has the face of a dog.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.