It's the only thing I ever learned how to do.

It's stuff that wasn't addressed the first time around, and we're picking them up now.

They have a short life span.

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.

I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle, and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.

From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.