One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

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

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

chaos: it has no plural.

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.

Migration is an opportunity, not a problem. And in the sense that it is an opportunity, it goes on to a bilateral agreement, between Mexico and the US, the US and the Dominican Republic, whatever you wish, and it has to be a multilateral, international event. I am in favor of an international union of migrant workers that really takes on the problems that affect Europe, with the migrants coming from Africa, and the US with the migrants coming from Latin America. It has to be considered an international question, with international solutions, and with no problems national or international.

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.