No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

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.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

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

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.