[C]ommon sense is the most valuable of political virtues. - Mario Vargas Llosa

[I]t is normal for outsiders to have a better understanding of what is happening inside dictatorial regimes, because censorship prevents those suffering under dictatorship from being fully aware of the situation in which they are living.

Literature creates a fraternity within human diversity and eclipses the frontiers erected among men and women by ignorance, ideologies, religions, languages, and stupidity.

He is always furious, on account of what he finds out or what he doesn't find out.