What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.

Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order to try to understand it.

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

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

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

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.