I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Schools teach ignorance.

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.