Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.