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.

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

The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others

Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.

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

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.