After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.
The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.
My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.
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.