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.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezHis place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .
Gabriel Garcia Marquez...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.
Gabriel Garcia Marqueza process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez