One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone..

Anything would be better in the US than what you have. As a government it's really very low quality, given the fact that this country produces eminen….

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die..

What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others..

Migration is an opportunity, not a problem. And in the sense that it is an opportunity, it goes on to a bilateral agreement, between Mexico and the U….

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned..

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we ….

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

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..

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

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

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….

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….

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

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….

No government functions without the grease of corruption..

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….

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….

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

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….

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