What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

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.

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

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

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

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.