but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.

What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are).

You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

Mexico City is the center of art and culture and politics and has been and continues to be for Latin America in a way that I think really called to me as an artistic person, as someone that was interested in the politics of Latin America, you know. God, every single famous person in Latin American history and art and politics seems to have found their way to Mexico City.

I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing.

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture