Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

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

Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.

As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.