Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

The light of morning decomposes everything.

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

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.

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.