It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.