I am a writer of fragments.

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.

Nothing impossible if you do it with love.

I failed!I went on changing the world without changing myself.

I know I want to help people and inspire people. That's my purpose in life.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

Arabs and their allies are conducting a total war against Israel. A total war means a war of lies. The PA [Palestinian Authority] promotes lies; lying in Islam is permitted.

Only the most lucid can see their love as comedy.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.