If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.