The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

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

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

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

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 into social and economic reforms. This is, I think, extremely important, because it also means that the left has abandoned the revolutionary solution proposed by Che Guevara and has taken the democratic path.

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.