Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.

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.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.