I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other