I also knew you wouldn't remember this trip, because you're only five years old, and our pediatrician had told us that children don't starting building memories of things until after they turn six. Wh...
The following day his outline appeared in white chalk on the asphalt. Did the hand of the person who skirted the coastline of his body tremble? The city, its sidewalks: an enormous blackboard- instead...
El problema con los criollos, y hasta en mayor grado con las criollas, es que están convencidos de que merecen una mejor vida de la que tienen. La mente criolla está convencida de que bajo la corteza...
Dios y la gente se solidarizan con las víctimas. Pero no con cualquier víctima, sino con las víctimas que se victimizan con éxito. Mi ex mujer, por ejemplo. Cuando nos divorciamos, la criolla se volvi...
He fell into a solemn silence, which he only eventually broke to say, I think I’ve become a terrible person. In fact, I’ve become a reptile. Do you know that reptiles are stupid because almost their e...
Perhaps no one really knows us who does not know the way we laugh.
Genetics is a science full of gods, Mr. Sanchez.
I... stopped acting as if I was privileged enough to worry about corporate ethics.
It’s never clear what turns a space into a home, and a life-project into a life.
Because - how do you explain that it is never inspiration that drives you to tell a story, but rather a combination of anger and clarity? How do you say: No, we do not find inspiration here, but we fi...
And as beautiful and real as life feels when you’re not thinking about its consequences.
Suppose you and Pa were gone, and we were lost. Suppose we were inside of What would happen then?I wonder what my sister, who understand books better than life, would say if she were confronted with...
Euphemisms hide, erase, coat. Euphemisms lead us to tolerate the unacceptable. And, eventually, to forget. Against a euphemism, remembrance. In order to not repeat.
New families, like young nations after violent wars of independence or social revolutions, perhaps need to anchor their beginnings in a symbolic moment and nail that instant in time.
Baldy fell for Dakota. She fell for his bathtub. They began a torturous, dangerous, multilateral relationship.
Suppose that the convenient narrative has always been to portray the nations that are systematically abused by more powerful nations as a no-man’s-land, as a barbaric periphery whose chaos and brownne...
Our penultimate lot, ladies and gentlemen, exudes an air of mystical melancholy. The tooth itself is crocodilian, but its aura is almost angelic. Note the curve; it is like a wing in ascent. Its owner...
Caminando por una misma calle que, sospecho, es la superposición de muchas calles. Sé, además, que algunos recuerdos son elaboración posterior: fantasías labradas durante una charla... Recordar, relee...
In the small glass box the auctioneer held high lay waiting for me the sacred teeth of none other than Marilyn Monroe.
I suppose that words, timely and arranged in the right order, produce an afterglow. When you read words like that in a book, beautiful words, a powerful but fleeting emotion ensues. And you also know...