Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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.
When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
Books get older as well; their body also wears out, but unlike us, their brain remains forever young!
You can only be embarrassed if you allow yourself to be embarrassed. If you embrace it and just accept that you're kind of a klutz, and you're able to make it into comedy gold.
I'm a total failure at housewifery. I always have been, 'cause I daydream too much. If I start doing the dishes at one in the afternoon, I'll still be there at six in the evening.