But What Do I Have?

The Worst Thing That Can Happen To An Artist Is To Be Subsidized By The State. It Leads To An Intellectual And Artistic Castration.

The Writer’s Job Is To Write With Rigor, With Commitment, To Defend What They Believe With All The Talent They Have. I Think That’s Part Of The Moral Obligation Of A Writer, Which Cannot Be Only Purely Artistic. I Think A Writer Has Some Kind Of Responsibility At Least To Participate In The Civic Debate. I Think Literature Is Impoverished, If It Becomes Cut From The Main Agenda Of People, Of Society, Of Life.

North American Society Could Not Have Reached Its State Of High Development And Modernity Had It Not Been An Open Society.

No Democracy Is Born Perfect, And None Ever Gets To Be Perfect. Yet Democracy Is Superior To Authoritarian And Totalitarian Regimes Because, Unlike Them, Democracy Is Perfectible.

Since It Is Impossible To Know What's Really Happening, We Peruvians Lie, Invent, Dream And Take Refuge In Illusion. Because Of These Strange Circumstances, Peruvian Life, A Life In Which So Few Actually Do Read, Has Become Literary.