El trabajo me parece una estupidez odiosa a la que es difícil escapar

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing more than the absolute conviction of possessing a style.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.

Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite took hold. Memories that would have shriveled under the blinding sun of daylight. And reason.