I Don't Think Any Good Book Is

No, It's Not That They're Bad. It's That They're Obliged To Pretend They're Good. They've Been Brought Up To Deceive And Be Cunning, To Protect Themselves From Our Society. I Don't Want To Be Like That.

The French Equate Intelligence With Rational Discourse, The Russians With Intense Soul-searching. For The Mexican, Intelligence Is Inseparable From Maliciousness.

I Believe In Books That Do Not Go To A Ready-made Public. I'm Looking For Readers I Would Like To Make. To Win Them, To Create Readers Rather Than To Give Something That Readers Are Expecting. That Would Bore Me To Death.

One Puts Off The Biography Like You Put Off Death. To Write An Autobiography Is To Etch The Words On Your Own Gravestone.

The Mexicans Descend From The Aztecs; The Peruvians Descend From The Incas; The Argentineans Descend From The Boats.