I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.