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Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.

For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.