Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.

and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.