Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

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.

And I dare to believe that it really is. I dare to bet on us again.

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

The more your mind is restful, the more you're capable of dynamic activity.

I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home.

I don't want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show that's based around my comedy.

If you can manage to be thankful in every situation, really believing that God is working everything out for your good, you will end up with the victory every single time.

DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.

"Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see."

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.