I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

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.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

Life's full of surprises, and they ain't all bad.

Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

The members of the Mystery school, during the time of Atlantis, had psychically seen the subsequent ages of darkness.

A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguished die.

Are you making fun of my hero complex?' Yeah.

Were it not for Scientology, I would either be completely insane or dead by now.

It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.

Your inner being is he who men call God.