I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.

In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

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

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.