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.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.