She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Surrealism runs through the streets.

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.