story telling is not a career, it’s a calling. I’ve been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

I’d like to repeat that Cuba is still a very good team. If this were to occur on a regular basis – using the mercy rule on us – it would be worrisome.

Cuando vayamos al maryo te diré mi secreto:Me envuelve, pero no es ola…Me amarga…, pero no es sal…

Current movement puts the system over the western edge of Cuba and eventually in the Gulf of Mexico and maybe even across our state by the end of the week or into the weekend.

We want to be a part of the tournament, and I think Cuba would be an ideal place because it already has experience organizing baseball events.

Eché mi esperanza al mar:y aún fue en el mar, mi esperanza verde-mar…

That’s because true travel, the kind with no predetermined end, is one of the most selfish endeavors we can possibly undertake-an act in which we focus solely on our own fulfillment, with little regard to...

Multinationals are much more likely to have business interests in the United States, … Even if what they might contemplate doing in Cuba does not fall foul of the Helms-Burton law, nevertheless, they are very...

Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being “false,” “untrue,” yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.

I’ve been working with the Texas Rice Growers Association to see about getting Texas rice sold to Iraq and to Cuba.

It’s serious in Puerto Rico. The game against Cuba is sold out – it sold out in two or three hours.

When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the...

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

Everybody saw Cuba as a smaller team. They saw other teams as greater. Yet here we are. Nothing is impossible. You will see in the final. We’re prepared for this mentally and physically.

Currents of cigarette fumes wafted through what passed for air. Attractive young women in bright-hued gowns glided through the streams of smoke, like tropical fish in an aquarium. Detecting the white uniforms and leathery faces,...

Bruce Sutter and his new pitch, the split finger fastball, fascinate the manager of the Cuban national teams. ‘We must find out about this new weapon,’ he said. ‘Are the American hitters plotting to murder...

For us this was very big because everybody saw Cuba as a smaller team. They thought of the other teams, greater teams, bigger teams, powerful. They thought we could never win against Venezuela, that we...

No fim da entrevista, quando o líder cubano [Fidel Castro] já havia discorrido sobre tema variados, a repórter Lucia Newman quis saber a opinião sobre os cubanos presos em Miami ‘acusados de fazer espionagem para...

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.

What Cuba has proved is that we can play up to other levels.

Cuba changed you. I changed you. And you are changing me.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature’s unpredictable creatures.

Cuba has shown the world that we have our heart in baseball. This classic is a historic event. We are not professionals. We don’t get paid to play. But we ranked second, well deserved. I...

A fallow mind is a field of discontent.

You think too much,” she said.”OK, no more thinking.

I’m not happy because I don’t like to lose, but Cuba showed that they can play anybody.

Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun has spots (stains). The ungrateful only talk about the spots (stains). The grateful...

Es posible que tenga algo que ver con el trópico, aquí todo madura y se descompone con facilidad. Nada persiste.

What Cuba has shown to the world is not only that we could play up to par with other major leaguers. We are not professional, we are amateur. We don’t get paid for doing this....

I’m thirty-six years old and I’ve been married once and he left and I don’t want to feel this way anymore. Like I can’t be vulnerable. Can’t relax. It’s exhausting, always being on the defensive,...

A little crazy is good