Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.
There are people you remember and people you dream of.
When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.