If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it.

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.

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.

Killing time is not an easy job.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.