The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of….

I’ve been thrashed by the critics. I love having critics for breakfast. I’ve been having them for 30 years in Mexico - just eating them like chicken ….

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down..

Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order to try to understan….

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record o….

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go..

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?.

No government functions without the grease of corruption..

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century..

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me..

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century..

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other..

Most writers in Mexico have had posts as ambassadors, secretaries - that is no longer the case. Now a writer can live off writing. He has an audience….

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a s….

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to….

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself..

I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was a diplomat. Therefore, I grew up ….

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living..

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Maril….

Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt..

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it..