I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, I will not be silenced.
Ariel DorfmanThose who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.
Ariel DorfmanI'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.
Ariel Dorfman