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.
Carlos FuentesThe Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
Carlos FuentesWhat America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
Carlos FuentesThere are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.
Carlos FuentesReligion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
Carlos FuentesIn a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to economic fundamentalism, with its religious conviction that the market, left to its own devices, is capable of resolving all our problems. This faith has its own ayatollahs. Its church is neo-liberalism; its creed is profit; its prayers are for monopolies.
Carlos Fuentes