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.

In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

Nobody teaches life anything.

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.