I Don't Think Any Good Book Is

Contrary To The Macho Culture Of Mexico, Both My Grandmothers Were Very Brave Young Widows. I Was Always Very Close To These Hard-working, Intelligent Women.

You Start By Writing To Live. You End By Writing So As Not To Die.

I Live Through Risk. Without Risk There Is No Art. You Should Always Be On The Edge Of A Cliff About To Fall Down And Break Your Neck.

The Citizen Takes His City For Granted Far Too Often. He Forgets To Marvel.

In A World Torn By Every Kind Of Fundamentalism - Religious, Ethnic, Nationalist And Tribal - We Must Grant First Place To Economic Fundamentalism, With Its Religious Conviction That The Market, Left To Its Own Devices, Is Capable Of Resolving All Our Problems. This Faith Has Its Own Ayatollahs. Its Church Is Neo-liberalism; Its Creed Is Profit; Its Prayers Are For Monopolies.