Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

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

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

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

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