I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.

Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.

I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.

I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.

I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

I support artistic freedom and always have.

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.