“There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.”

Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.

How can you expect me to be perfect…when I am full of contradictions.

There is no one so lonely than a man who loves only himself.

I don’t have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

My work stops at publication. If the books don’t contain in themselves their reasons for being – questions and answers – it means I was wrong to have them published.

Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

I was never a worker. And that’s not even being arrogant. I was just never a worker.

The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.

Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.