It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.