Gabriel Garcia Marquez — "The problem with love is that it's just a chemical reaction."

"I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the…"

"Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no."

"The only way to overcome death is to leave something behind."

"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both, you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood."

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."