My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

For me, words are just words, nothing else

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 do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

I don't have any style.