There Is No Creation Without Tradition. No

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 Have Two Children Who Died Before Reaching 30, So Who Am I To Complain About Being Alive?

There Must Be Something Beyond Slaughter And Barbarism To Support The Existence Of Mankind And We Must All Help Search For It.

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.

I Don't Think Any Good Book Is Based On Factual Experience. Bad Books Are About Things The Writer Already Knew Before He Wrote Them.