What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

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.