No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

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.

The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.

Live each day as if it could be the last day that you spend with your husband or wife.

You will soon regret the bitter words you fumed when you were angry.

Self importance is self pride.

When you aren't open to grow

There are gonna be a core set of values that shouldn't be up for debate. Should be our north star.

I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.