Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.

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

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

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.