I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pess….

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….

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination..

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history..

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate..

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre..

I need, therefore I imagine..

Writing is a struggle against silence..

chaos: it has no plural..

I have no literary fears..

To read and write is a paradise..

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

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists..

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

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things othe….

No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect thems….

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybod….

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the o….

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past..

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from m….

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck..