If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.