Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.

Writing is always a voyage of discovery.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.