It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.

Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.

Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.