Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.
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 writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
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
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.
Don't let the bad shots get to you. Don't let yourself become angry. The true scramblers are thick-skinned. And they always beat the whiners.
To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?
My ginger tabby cat Oscar - he's got his own passport - he comes everywhere with me.
The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.