Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

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

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.