Felipe González

“Urban movement and noise help me speak poetically about the social world.”

“A stray dog listens to what no one says and sees what is hidden, making him a privileged narrator.”

“Beware of nuns and priests, they will make you doubt your faith.”

“In the end, finding the Truth will always be tiring in a world full of appearances.”

“They never noticed the one who, silently, sustained this story, chose the future, set the guidelines for their memories and desires.”

“Probably, the eccentricities of those who visited the establishment meant nothing to him, especially if they were accompanied by a generous tip.”

“His life had been a sum of half-hearted decisions.”

“…the literary feeds on that fragility of life.”

“Literature is an act of communion.”

“Literature that hurts is often the one that best tells a complex truth.”

“While it's true that, recently, Ramiro Gutiérrez had shown a tendency toward tearful and painful literature, he had never felt the same way, for example, as the pathetic Werther or the gallant Don Quixote.”

“We cannot be naive: the literature book will not solve poverty by itself”

“…sometimes I feel like I betray the writer when I try to teach literature.”

“Literature is the emotional biography of a human being who has dared to write it.”

“…over time he would realize that the higher he was, the less danger he was in and the more he controlled the ever-ready mass.”

“Mexico is a beautiful country in its tremendous contradictions.”

“That apartment was the only property he truly owned—his own as much as a rental can be.”

“Overcome by that mix of cowardice and curiosity typical of 1980s horror movies, where we all knew the protagonists shouldn’t go that way, he knew he shouldn’t look—but he did.”

“Los Prisioneros were always right: for the 'gringos,' Latin America is still just one country south of the United States.”