The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.

Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

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

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.