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.
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels
Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.
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.