For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure. 
Religious disintegration began with colonization. 
Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim. 
Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots. 
Bacteria and viruses were the most effective allies. 
Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it 
What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there. 
All that exists is the temple. In this sacred place, the only religion without atheists puts its divinities on display. 
Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin. 
I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world. 
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past 
If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are 
I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi. 
Here," an old sugar worker told me, "the people have a great love for martyrsbut only after they're dead. Before, there's nothing but complaints.
In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed. 
This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart. 
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team. 
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. 
All I know is this: art is art, or it's shit 
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day 
I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball. 
I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire 
I still have things to do. I met up with the stars, but I could not count them. I drew water from the well, but I could not offer it. 
Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart 
A pretty move, for the love of God. 
Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny. 
There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge. 
Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war. 
Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world. 
I am not particularly interested insaving time; I prefer to enjoy it.
There is nothing more orderly than a cemetery. 
Lying in the sun, he follows the unhurried paths of seagulls and sailboats, the azure breeze, the ebb and flow of foam on the water and in the air. 
If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises. 
Why are some walls so loud and others mute? 
Is the prosperity of a class really identifiable with the well-being of a country? 
Latin America is part of the world which was for many years condemned to the system of power where intimidation had more strength than the vote. 
If thats how it was done, and thats how it had always been done, there had to be a reason 
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture. 
Hunting Jews has always been a European sport.Now the Palestinians, who never played it, are paying the bill.
Whatever Latin America sells - raw materials or manufactures - its chief export product is really cheap labor. 
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. 
The diversity of life is so stimulating for me. 
If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight? 
We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are. 
Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God's mysterious designs. 
There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear. 
The goal is soccer's orgasm. And like orgasms, goals have become an ever less frequent occurrence in modern life. 
We are all mortals until the first kiss and te second glass of wine. 