I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.