Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

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.

If itWere lighter touchThan petal of flower restingOn grass, oh still too heavy it were, Too heavy!

Any defensiveness is a sign of failure. You can't move forward if you are defensive.

BALLS! We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them HERE, and we want them NOW.

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different.

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?

All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.