The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.

Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.