To Tell You The Truth,

My Friend, Dennis Mathis, Was Reading Eastern European And Japanese Experimental Writers, And I Brought The Latin American Writers To His Attention, So We Exchanged Books And Bounced Off One Another.

We Tend To Think Of Orphans As Being The Protagonist Of Stories We Read When We're Kids, And Yet Here You Are: You're An Adult, You're Supposed To Manage, You're Supposed To Get Over It, You're Supposed To Go On With Your Life, And You Feel Like A Lost Child.

I Think There's A Rule That Once You Want To Live Somewhere, You Can't Find A Job.

I Began Writing As An Experimental Writer.

Mexicans Don't Think Of Ghosts As Haunting You.