Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.