Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.