The Secret Of A Long Marriage Is

I Left Cuba When I Was Two Years Old. They Took Away My Country, They Stole The Most Intimate Thing A Human Being Can Have. How Could I Forget That Fidel Castro Was The Person Who Did Me So Much Harm?

The Library Takes Me Away From My Everyday Life And Allows Me To See Other Places And Learn To Understand Other People Unlike Myself.

If You Discover A Word In My Book That You Don't Understand, Ask Your Parents So They Can Look It Up In The Dictionary For You.

My Grandmother Would Shanghai Pilots At The Havana Airport So They'd Bring Me Cartons Of Mango Baby Food - The Only Kind I'd Eat. I Learned To Eat Peach Later. And In Every Carton, She'd Slip A Cuban Record.

The Challenge Is Always As A Writer, Is This Going To Work, Because It's A Very Intimate Process, And I Tend To Be Very Introverted And Insular, And When I Write, It's In My Head.