If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.