I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

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.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

There is no loss in life.

Love is the most powerful gift we have to offer.

Surround yourself with everything and everyone that will help you feel your best, think your best, do your best, and be your best.

He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him.

Anyone who wants to vote probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting is the first step towards zombification - trying to get something without actually working for it.

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.

The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.