She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

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.