In Venezuela, when I was living there, crime was growing. You couldn't feel safe anywhere. You couldn't leave your car in the street because it would be stolen. You coun't live in your house if you didn't have a high-security alarm system, because you would be burglarized seven times a week.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

Writers speak for those who are kept in silence

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.