Escribir es recordar, pero también es olvidar.

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

In the dictatorship, time stands still.

I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.