Darkness promotes speech.

A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay of what they are made. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breaths through the erotic.

I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it.