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?

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.

To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.