I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart

Morality, too, is a question of time.

Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.

Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.