"So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana"

"I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter"

"I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news"

"I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city"

"The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs"