but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

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.