The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.