There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men -- the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.
For me, words are just words, nothing else
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
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.
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other
I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who will make my jaw drop in awe. A woman that has little time for me. One who does not throw herself at me. One who respects herself who has a sense of herself. Where is she
You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.
Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.
You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it