I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.