You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Religion is the opium of the poor.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.