Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.

Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.