Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.