What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

El mundo habrá acabado de joderse -dijo entonces- el día en que los hombres viajen en primera clase y la literatura en el vagón de carga.

There is no greater glory than to die for love.