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

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

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.

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.