When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.