Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

Memory is satisfied desire.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order to try to understand it.

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

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

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