In Literature, You Know Only

I Discovered Very Quickly That Criticism Is A Form Of Optimism, And That When You Are Silent About The Shortcomings Of Your Society, You're Very Pessimistic About That Society. And It's Only When You Speak Truthfully About It That You Show Your Faith In That Society.

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.

What's Happened At The Abu Ghraib Prison In Iraq Is One Of The Grossest Violations Of Human Rights Under The Geneva Conventions That We Have Record Of. It Is Simply Monstrous.

There Is No Creation Without Tradition; The 'new' Is An Inflection On A Preceding Form; Novelty Is Always A Variation On The Past.

You Have An Absolute Freedom In Mexican Writing Today In Which You Dont Necessarily Have To Deal With The Mexican Identity. You Know Why? Because We Have An Identity... We Know Who We Are. We Know What It Means To Be A Mexican.