Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

The team is the star, never an individual player.

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

I do think the Cubans have to change some of the political structures there and allow critical voices, for their own sakes, because unless there is accountability the revolution will totally atrophy.