I am against the notion of style in itself

A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels