Manuel Puig

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.