For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart

Latin America is part of the world which was for many years condemned to the system of power where intimidation had more strength than the vote.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.

In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.