"Nothing can last forever; there is no memory, however intense, that does not fade."

"It is a difficult thing to grow up knowing that the thing where we can hold on to take root is dead."

"’I will get to the idea that I dreamed you,’ he said. Because the truth is that I've known you for a long time, but I…"

"Learn this, son: in the new nest you have to leave an egg. When I aged you, you will learn to live, you will know tha…"

"The living are those who are a shame. Don't you think so? The dead do not give war to anyone; but what is alive, they…"

"I owe a special debt to Juan Rulfo, the Mexican writer who gave voice to the blood-soaked earth of the Mexican Revolu…"

"I belong to the first generation of Latin American writers brought up reading other Latin American writers. Before my…"

"Among the Mexican writers I prefer Juan Rulfo for the wonderful mystery and magic of his writings, all those disembod…"

"A whole generation of the Chicano writers were influenced by the Latin American male boom because that's all we got. …"

"A visit to the Mexican literary world recalls Dante’s procession through the inferno. I don’t want to point the finge…"