“ My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. ”
—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of behavior can get in a man's way.—When? When it comes to torturing?”—No, when it comes to being finished with the torturers.”—But if men acted like women there wouldn't be anymore torturers.
~ Manuel Puig
--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again.
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.