"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability."
"People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'"
"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
