"I believe it’s something that happens when one is around art, and when one is close to books: they seep into your system, into your blood, and start to activate something in your life. We start living in the way that some of these characters live, with some sense of their sensibility. It’s almost as if the reader becomes the writer and the writer becomes the reader…"

"You see a Party system that crushes down anybody who different opinions, who has different ideas in their mind. Simply to have different opinions can cost someone their life. They can be put in jail, …"

"All my work is informed by personal experience. It is the seed to which I apply a transcendent dialogue. The idea for my first bubble machine was rooted in a complex combination of many memories. Duri…"

"To draw up in advance an exact and detailed plan is to deprive our minds of the pleasures of the encounter and the novelty that comes from executing the work. It is to make the execution insipid for u…"

"The most important things in my life have been being governor of Puerto Rico and eliminating the old tradition that was established by Muñoz himself of being a boss. He was the boss of the government …"