There had never been a death so foretold.

If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by their inscriptions but that no one would remember their use.... At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said "Macondo" and another larger one on the main street that said "God exists".

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.

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

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