When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

La verdad, es que en el fondo soy un fatalista. Si a uno le llega la hora, da lo mismo un Boeing que la puntual maceta que se derrumba sobre uno desde un séptimo piso

You are only as touched my the magic of this life as you want to be.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

I once lost a bill betting on the Red Sox, ...But that's another topic.

I come from a background of independent films.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.

The next time you drop my jacket, I'll drop you!