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

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

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.

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

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

In literature, you know only what you imagine