nothing in this world was more difficult than love. - Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

"My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show."

"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."

"Un buen escritor se aprecia mejor por lo que rompe que por lo que publica."

"and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality."