I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

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.

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

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

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

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

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