All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.

..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.

The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground

Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened one after another, to the point where, if I try to think about them in order, I lose track.