Violence Represents The Worst Kind Of Conformism.

‎reading Good Literature Is An Experience Of Pleasure...but It Is Also An Experience Of Learning What And How We Are, In Our Human Integrity And Our Human Imperfection, With Our Actions, Our Dreams, And Our Ghosts, Alone And In Relationships That Link Us To Others, In Our Public Image And In The Secret Recesses Of Our Consciousness.

North American Society Could Not Have Reached Its State Of High Development And Modernity Had It Not Been An Open Society.

I Learned To Read At The Age Of Five, In Brother Justiniano's Class At The De La Salle Academy In Cochabamba, Bolivia. It Is The Most Important Thing That Has Ever Happened To Me. Almost Seventy Years Later I Remember Clearly How The Magic Of Translating The Words In Books Into Images Enriched My Life, Breaking The Barriers Of Time And Space.

There Is An Incompatibility Between Literary Creation And Political Activity.

No Matter How Ephemeral It Is, A Novel Is Something, While Despair Is Nothing.