It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.