"Children's lies are signs of great talent."

"Now you don't have to say yes because your heart is saying it for you."

"...a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth ..."

"Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him."

"Since the appearance of visible life on Earth, 380 million years had to elapse in order for a butterfly to learn how …"

"I couldn't tell you because even I don't know who I am yet."

"The most prosperous countries have succeeded in accumulating powers of destruction such as to annihilate, a hundred t…"

"It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's no…"

"In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that n…"

"Interviewer: You describe seemingly fantastic events in such minute detail that it gives them their own reality. Is t…"