Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, "My bombs are my books."

About being denied a visa to the United States in the early 1960s after he praised the Cuban Revolution; as quoted by Anne-Marie O'Connor, "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future", Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006

Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future - latimes[latimes.com]