Ive never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. – Manuel Puig
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert? – Manuel Puig
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. – Manuel Puig
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. – Manuel Puig
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld