Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.

Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

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.

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.

No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.