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

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

Things have changed in Latin America now. We mostly have democratic governments in Latin America, so the position of the writer has changed. It is not as Neruda used to say, that a Latin American writer walks around with the body of his people on his back. Now, we have citizens, we have public means of expression, political parties, congress, unions. So, the writer's position has changed, we now consider ourselves to be citizens - not spokespeople for everybody - but citizens that participate in the political and social process of the country.

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

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

In literature, you know only what you imagine

I am a Mexican. The United States lived seventy-five years with the one party system in Mexico - the PRI - without batting an eyelid, never demanding democracy of Mexico. Democracy came because Mexicans fought for democracy and made a democracy out of our history, our possibilities, our perspectives. Democracy is not something that can be exported like Coca-Cola. It has to be bred from the inside, according to the culture, the conditions of each country.