After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.

far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.