Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror..

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings..

In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics..

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly lib….

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family..

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

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats..

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika..

Things have changed in Latin America now. We mostly have democratic governments in Latin America, so the position of the writer has changed. It is no….

I am a Mexican. The United States lived seventy-five years with the one party system in Mexico - the PRI - without batting an eyelid, never demanding….

Now the masses of Latin America are electing governments they feel can take forward the democratic reforms of the last 20 years, and transform them i….

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature..

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….

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with th….

You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the hal….

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligen….

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

There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everyth….

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal..

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window..

When we have a better, more social, more responsible, less egotistical, less corrupt system, Mexico will be able to give work to the millions of Mexi….