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Most Writers In Mexico Have Had Posts As Ambassadors, Secretaries - That Is No Longer The Case. Now A Writer Can Live Off Writing. He Has An Audience: There Are Publishing Houses, There Are Newspapers - So The Situation Is Not As Terrible As It Used To Be When There Were No Means And He Had To Go Into Government Service, Be An Ambassador Or A Cabinet Minister, Etc. So, Things Are Changing In The Sense That The Civil Society Is Now The Protagonist. The Writer Therefore Occupies A Different Position, But No Less Influential Than In The Past, In A New, Democratic Society.

Children Know How To Be Cruel, And The Cruelty Of Their Elders Is The Surest Residue Of The Malaise The Young Feel Toward Things Strange, Things Other, Things That Reveal Our Own Ignorance Or Insufficiency

I Like Fighting. I Get Into Rows All The Time.

I Have Two Children Who Died Before Reaching 30, So Who Am I To Complain About Being Alive?

I Have No Literary Fears.