"Lima frightened him, it was too big, you could lose yourself in it and never find your way home; the people on the street were total strangers."

“It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.”

“A clean conscience might help you to get into heaven. but it won't help your career.”

“Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth.”

“Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.”

“Reading changed dreams into life and life into dreams.”

“Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.”