The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flower that smells rather than the chronicler of the aroma. There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write.

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.

I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.