For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

We are at war. There will be scars. – Uttara Vairati

There's no point in making a plan because somehow it always manages to fall apart.

It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.

Hi my name is Brian, but uh, you can call me 'B-Rok'. Cuz, I be rockin' your house!

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.

Sometimes a bit of distance can be very healthy. You can go away by yourself on a trip and come back very glad to be with your partner because you've cleared your head out of all the negativity.

Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.

The sacrament of marriage is based on a man and woman.

One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.