Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds as it amuses the fancy as it improves the understanding and as it strengthens virtue.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.