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

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

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

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

Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

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.