It Is Important Not To Trust People

We Cannot Understand All The Traits We Have Inherited. Sometimes We Can Be Strangers To Ourselves.

The Europeans Wanted Gold And Slaves, Like Everybody Else; But At The Same Time They Wanted Statues Put Up To Themselves As People Who Had Done Good Things For The Slaves.

I Really Wasn't Equipped To Be A Writer When I Left Oxford. But Then I Set Out To Learn. I've Always Had The Highest Regard For The Craft. I've Always Felt It Was Work.

Argentine Political Life Is Like The Life Of An Ant Community Or An African Forest Tribe: Full Of Events, Full Of Crisis And Deaths, But Life Is Always Cyclical, And The Year Ends As It Begins.

Whenever I Have Had To Write Fiction, I've Always Had To Invent A Character Who Roughly Has My Background.