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

You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past.

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.

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was a diplomat. Therefore, I grew up in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, the United States, I studied in Switzerland - so I've always had perspective on my country - I am thankful for that.

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

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