I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.