When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me

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.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

Puns are a form of humor with words.