Mario Vargas Llosa

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.