Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; its like the end of the world.

There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.

Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.

You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.