Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)