To Read And Write Is

The Great Wheel Of Fire Of Ancient Wisdom, Silence And Word Engendering The Myth Of The Origin, Human Action Engendering The Epic Voyage Toward The Other; Historical Violence Revealing The Tragic Flaw Of The Hero Who Must Then Return To The Land Of Origin; Myth Of Death And Renewal And Silence From Which New Words And Images Will Arise, Keeps On Turning In Spite Of The Blindness Of Purely Lineal Thought.

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.

The Possibility Of Being As Free With The Camera As We Are With The Pen Is A Fantastic Prospect For The Creative Life Of The 21st Century.

There Are People Whose External Reality Is Generous Because It Is Transparent, Because You Can Read Everything, Accept Everything, Understand Everything About Them: People Who Carry Their Own Sun With Them.

Migration Is An Opportunity, Not A Problem. And In The Sense That It Is An Opportunity, It Goes On To A Bilateral Agreement, Between Mexico And The Us, The Us And The Dominican Republic, Whatever You Wish, And It Has To Be A Multilateral, International Event. I Am In Favor Of An International Union Of Migrant Workers That Really Takes On The Problems That Affect Europe, With The Migrants Coming From Africa, And The Us With The Migrants Coming From Latin America. It Has To Be Considered An International Question, With International Solutions, And With No Problems National Or International.