"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
"I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone."
"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him."
"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability."
"Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale."
"Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing."
"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability."
"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."
"Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing."
"The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability."
"[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
"While a person does not give up on sex sex does not give up on the person."
"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past."
"In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it."