And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

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