Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.