102 Quotes by Manuel Puig

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

--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.

—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.

--¿Qué es ser hombre, para vos?--Es muchas cosas, pero para mí... bueno, lo más lindo del hombre es eso, ser lindo, fuerte, pero sin hacer alharaca de fuerza, y que va avanzando seguro. Que camine seguro, como mi mozo, que hable sin miedo, que sepa lo que quiere, adonde va, sin miedo de nada.

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

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.