I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

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.

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.

A most amazing defense with Power to destroy any enemy… GRATITUDE!

To those who say there is no God, you must seek to find Him. Deut. 4:29.

She felt as though she’d found a moment of forever. Like this was how they should’ve always been

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.

Unforgiven, I think, is the best Western ever.

If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

Real life begins by committing yourself completely to Jesus Christ.

He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.