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

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

Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

Nobody teaches life anything.

When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.

It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.

For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.