Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

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.

Be a man of value and the universe will pay you for the value you add to it.

The Supreme lesson of Life is Love....

Night is when the whispers of the past become the echoes of the present.

It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

It is good for me that I have been afflicted.

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.