Writing Is A Struggle Against Silence.

The Mexican Revolution Was A Break With The Past To Recover The Past. We Were Trying To Deny We Had An Indian And A Black And A Spanish Past. The Mexican Revolution Accepted All Heritages. It Allowed Mexico To Be Mestizo.

By Its Very Nature, The Novel Indicates That We Are Becoming. There Is No Final Solution. There Is No Last Word.

I Have No Literary Fears.

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

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