Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.
I think all writing is done through memory.
I am against the notion of style in itself.
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
