Manuel Puig

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.