I Like Fighting. I Get Into Rows

Anything Would Be Better In The Us Than What You Have. As A Government It's Really Very Low Quality, Given The Fact That This Country Produces Eminent Intellectuals, Has Great Universities, And Then The People Who Arrive In Government Are Very Mediocre. The Latin American Situation Has Been Very Different In The First Place, Because Writers Have Spoken For Those Who Have No Voice. The Rate Of Illiteracy, Poverty, Joblessness In Latin America Has Been So Great Throughout Our History That If The Writers Didn't Speak Out For The People, Nobody Would.

In Literature, You Know Only What You Imagine

If The Soviet Union Can Give Up The Brezhnev Doctrine For The Sinatra Doctrine, The United States Can Give Up The James Monroe Doctrine For The Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's All Go To Bed Wearing The Perfume We Like Best.

For Me, Life Without Literature Is Inconceivable. I Think That Don Quixote In A Physical Sense Never Existed, But Don Quixote Exists More Than Anybody Who Existed In 1605. Much More. There's Nobody Who Can Compete With Don Quixote Or With Hamlet. So In The End We Have The Reality Of The Book As The Reality Of The World And The Reality Of History.

I Live Through Risk. Without Risk There Is No Art. You Should Always Be On The Edge Of A Cliff About To Fall Down And Break Your Neck.