The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

To read and write is a paradise.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

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

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