2 Quotes by José Antonio Villareal

Mamá, do you know what happens to me when I read? All those hours that I sit, as you sometimes say, ‘ruining my eyes’? If I do ruin them, it would be worth it, for I do not need eyes where I go then. I travel, Mamá. I travel all over the world, and sometimes out of this whole universe, and I go back in time and again forward. I do not know I am here, and I do not care.

As he walked along the crowded streets, he almost wished for the old days, and carelessly wondered how many men he had killed here.