“There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.”

“one ages more and with more intensity in pictures than in reality.”

“Gabito isn't deceiving anyone," she said with an innocent smile, "but sometimes it happens that even God needs to make weeks that are two years long.”

“He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”

“He thought the column was magnificent, everything it said about old age was the best he had ever read, and it made no sense to end it with a decision that seemed more like a civil death.”

“It is life, more than death, that has no limits.”