I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity

I think all writing is done through memory

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

I am against the notion of style in itself