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..

Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch. - Captain Roque Carnicero

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

It is easier to start a war than to end it.

Mi vida estuvo siempre perturbada por una maraña de trampas, gambetas e ilusiones para burlar los incontables señuelos que trataban de convertirme en cualquier cosa que no fuera escritor.

My God, this is longer than sorrow!