When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.

The measure of a country’s prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation.

Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it, but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern, but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us.

Sometimes we know people who aretoo wonderful for words. I am not one of them.Or you, for that matter, as you well know.

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.

a good friendship euchres the universe.

All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.

Being in love is the best thing in my life.

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.

If a doctor assists you in your suicide, it is called manslaughter, while if a tobacco company does, it is called commerce.

I don't like the intellectual label.

Heaven is within you.

Any life worth living is going to have risks

If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.

No offence Mitch, but you look like s*****." "I feel like s****