When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

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

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.