Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

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.

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.