Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

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.

Be aware of your breathing and breathe naturally. This will lead you into unity with the great flow of Life, your true nature.

-Are you nervous to meet my family? -No, not really.They're either going to like me or they won't. All I can do is to be myself and hope for the best.

Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.