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

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

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

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

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

Most writers in Mexico have had posts as ambassadors, secretaries - that is no longer the case. Now a writer can live off writing. He has an audience: there are publishing houses, there are newspapers - so the situation is not as terrible as it used to be when there were no means and he had to go into government service, be an ambassador or a cabinet minister, etc. So, things are changing in the sense that the civil society is now the protagonist. The writer therefore occupies a different position, but no less influential than in the past, in a new, democratic society.

chaos: it has no plural.