It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work th...
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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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I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
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That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
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Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.
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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...
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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,...
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No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the...
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Take care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do ...
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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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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...
