Status Updates From Gabriel García Márquez: The...

"every normal man finds any new sexual experience terrifying….He’s afraid of making a fool of himself…anxiety prevents him from performing as well as his machismo expects. In this sense we’re all impotent and can only come out of it with self-respect intact thanks to a woman’s understanding….It gives love a special magic because every time is like the first time and each couple has to start as if it were their first"

"My mother doesn’t understand how I can be a revolutionary if I can’t even kill a fly, and I tell her that’s precisely why I am one: for as long as there’s no revolution, I live in constant fear that I’ll be put in a situation where I have to kill a fly."