There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.

This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more.

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

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.