Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures, because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong. If I was born in Japan, I would speak about Buddhism, but I was born in South America.

Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write.

What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the star. The creator is the director, the person who realizes the picture, like a poet, like an artist. The creator of the picture is free to do whatever he wants, how he wants to do it. That is an artistic picture.

Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.