Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.

The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.