The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.