Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.

The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.