Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space.

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

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

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

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.