"I would like my readers to levitate when they read the novel. I believe that there is too much violence and coarsenes…"

"In life, reality and fantasy are blended, and I deliberately look for that connection in my work. It gives me pleasur…"

"Cuba is a ghost that feeds my literature...The seedling of what I am today took root on that island. But, that Cuba n…"

"Exile was where I was able to complete the amended or mutilated spaces that I was still missing to understand Cuba’s …"

"Man is a political animal in certain societies, but it is also an emotional and imaginative animal in any context. It…"

"It’s as if Ray Bradbury had married Michael Ende and occasionally flirted with Anais Nin.”"

"What the Roman Empire is to European history, the Mongol Empire is to Asian history."

"What seems to destroy world orders (at least in history) is not great power rivalry, but structural pressures that fr…"

"If you were living in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, or sixteenth century, you would not think Europe was the…"

"Even more so than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine there are major structural trends that are threatening to change the w…"