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Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

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Since Aureliano at that time had very confused notions about the difference between Conservatives and Liberals, his father in law gave him some schema...more

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She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing a...more

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I do not believe in decent women who do not know how to play the piano.

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After dinner, at five o’clock, the crew distributed folding canvas cots to the passengers, and each person opened his bed wherever he could find room,...more

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Children inherit their parents' madness.

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...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, be...more