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

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

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

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.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.

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.