I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love. - Gabriel García Márquez

In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.

... that the past is one lie, and the memory has no returning, becouse every old spring is beyond retrieve, and even the craziest and most persistent love is just a temporary truth...

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.