The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

In Venezuela, when I was living there, crime was growing. You couldn't feel safe anywhere. You couldn't leave your car in the street because it would be stolen. You coun't live in your house if you didn't have a high-security alarm system, because you would be burglarized seven times a week.

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy.