I Have No Literary Fears.

Some Writers Achieve Great Popularity And Then Disappear Forever. The Bestseller Lists Of The Past Fifty Years Are, With A Few Lively Exceptions, A Sombre Graveyard Of Dead Books.

I Like Fighting. I Get Into Rows All The Time.

Most Writers In Mexico Have Had Posts As Ambassadors, Secretaries - That Is No Longer The Case. Now A Writer Can Live Off Writing. He Has An Audience: There Are Publishing Houses, There Are Newspapers - So The Situation Is Not As Terrible As It Used To Be When There Were No Means And He Had To Go Into Government Service, Be An Ambassador Or A Cabinet Minister, Etc. So, Things Are Changing In The Sense That The Civil Society Is Now The Protagonist. The Writer Therefore Occupies A Different Position, But No Less Influential Than In The Past, In A New, Democratic Society.

Retrospectively, I Would Agree With Luis Bunuel That Sex Without Sin Is Like An Egg Without Salt.

Robinson Crusoe, The First Capitalist Hero, Is A Self-made Man Who Accepts Objective Reality And Then Fashions It To His Needs Through The Work Ethic, Common Sense, Resilience, Technology, And, If Need Be, Racism And Imperialism.