Havana Quotations

One October day in 1976, a Cuban airliner exploded over the Caribbean and crashed, killing all 73 people aboard. There should have been 74. I had a ticket on that flight, but changed my reservation at the last moment and flew to Havana on an earlier plane.

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

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.

Given the well-known anti-Americanism of the Cuban and Venezuelan governments, rallies in Havana and Caracas cannot be considered representative of public opinion in the hemisphere.

Hemingway invited him to Havana for some weekends and the movie is really about what happens when he goes there,

The ruling leaves the immediate question of Elian's custody back in the hands of the Justice Department. Reno is free to send marshals in to get the boy and reunite him with his father, but the court's decision may make it politically harder for her to order action because the Little Havana community believes it has won a big victory, and could become even more volatile if the feds try to remove Elian from Miami.

The rude provocations that have been undertaken from its Interests Office in Havana does not, and could not, have any other goal.

No, there is no defection. The Cuban team is in very high spirits. The aspirations from when we left Havana have been multiplied.

In the '40s and '50s, Havana was the Paris of the Caribbean. Everyone was always well-dressed.

I received quite a lot of ribbing whenever I went into the bank and people were always offering me Havana cigars - it was very nice.

I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.

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

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.