He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

We'll grow old waiting.

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

It's much more important to write than to be written about.