When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

Every time, I try to make something different.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

At weddings old people poke me and say, "you're next, " so I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

I don't want to be here when my latest work of accidental art is discovered.

I think it’s easyto confuse love with other things.Lust, for one. Need, for another

Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.

What's it like going back? Fun and sexy. That's the point. It's - the only reason to go back to an old boyfriend is because you think hmm, maybe.

We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.