Children's lies are signs of great talent.

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.