"If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it…"

"Literature was a vast minefield occupied by enemies, except for a few classic authors (just a few), and every day I h…"

"The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinkin…"

"We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain."

"It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the ri…"

"One day I heard that The Eye had left Mexico. I wasn't surprised that he hadn't said good-bye. The Eye never said goo…"

"That night when he went back to his hotel, he wept for his dead children and all the other castrated boys, for his ow…"

"I was imprisoned in Concepción for a few days and then realeased. They didn't torture me, as I had feared; they didn'…"

"La literatura es un vasto bosque y las obras maestras son los lagos, los árboles inmensos o extrañísimos, las elocuen…"

"¿Cómo reconocer una obra de arte? ¿Cómo separarla, aunque sólo sea un momento, de su aparato crítico, de sus exégetas…"