Everyone in his place and a place for everyone.

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.

I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.

Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.