Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

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

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.