The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
In literature, you know only what you imagine
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.
I love having critics for breakfast
There is nothing I love more than helping someone realize how corrupt our food system is and them making great changes in their own life because of it.
Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor.