I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the... - Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

"Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.."

"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."

"The world must be all fucked up,"he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight."

"sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love"

"Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."