… no sooner had you done something than someone else appeared who threatened to do it better. - Gabriel García Márquez

Interviewer: You describe seemingly fantastic events in such minute detail that it gives them their own reality. Is this something you have picked up from journalism? García Márquez: That's a journalistic trick which you can also apply to literature. If you say that there are elephants flying in the sky, people are not going to believe you. But if you say that there are four hundred and twenty-five elephants in the sky, people will probably believe you.

I live in fear of being alive.

Shame has poor memory.