I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

I finished high school and college - I actually moved to New York to study film - and was always working in theaters and studying. You never stop learning.

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

It's a dream of mine to be a yoga teacher one day.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.