In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

I need, therefore I imagine.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

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.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

GLORY TO GOD!

Strive to always please your inner positive self, and those who truly matter would be highly pleased with your way of life.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.

If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.

Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables.

If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person.

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.