Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.

The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.