The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.

Merciful God!' sighed the General. 'We've arrived.' And it was true. For there was the sea, and on the other side of the sea was the world.

Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..