I Had The Good Fortune

If The Soviet Union Can Give Up The Brezhnev Doctrine For The Sinatra Doctrine, The United States Can Give Up The James Monroe Doctrine For The Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's All Go To Bed Wearing The Perfume We Like Best.

One Puts Off The Biography Like You Put Off Death. To Write An Autobiography Is To Etch The Words On Your Own Gravestone.

The Language Of Mexicans Springs From Abysmal Extremes Of Power And Impotence, Domination And Resentment.

I Had The Good Fortune Of Having A Happy, Closely Knit Family.

Most Writers In Mexico Have Had Posts As Ambassadors, Secretaries - That Is No Longer The Case. Now A Writer Can Live Off Writing. He Has An Audience: There Are Publishing Houses, There Are Newspapers - So The Situation Is Not As Terrible As It Used To Be When There Were No Means And He Had To Go Into Government Service, Be An Ambassador Or A Cabinet Minister, Etc. So, Things Are Changing In The Sense That The Civil Society Is Now The Protagonist. The Writer Therefore Occupies A Different Position, But No Less Influential Than In The Past, In A New, Democratic Society.