Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
I was born in Cuba but was made in the USA.
The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else
My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find my place, or to find once again that I have lost my place.
My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.
Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.
I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.
You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.