I Have No Literary Fears.

There Is No Creation Without Tradition. No One Creates From Nothing.

Diplomacy In A Sense Is The Opposite Of Writing. You Have To Disperse Yourself So Much: The Lady Who Comes In Crying Because Shes Had A Fight With The Secretary; Exports And Imports; Students In Trouble; Thumbtacks For The Embassy.

Now The Masses Of Latin America Are Electing Governments They Feel Can Take Forward The Democratic Reforms Of The Last 20 Years, And Transform Them Into Social And Economic Reforms. This Is, I Think, Extremely Important, Because It Also Means That The Left Has Abandoned The Revolutionary Solution Proposed By Che Guevara And Has Taken The Democratic Path.

I Use A Lot Of Film Images, Analogies, And Imagination.

What's Happened At The Abu Ghraib Prison In Iraq Is One Of The Grossest Violations Of Human Rights Under The Geneva Conventions That We Have Record Of. It Is Simply Monstrous.