In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.

Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.