As a rule, one should never place form over content.

- Manuel Puig

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

- Manuel Puig

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

- Manuel Puig

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

- Manuel Puig

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

- Manuel Puig

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

- Manuel Puig

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

- Manuel Puig

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

- Manuel Puig

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

- Manuel Puig