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 was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

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 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 have assiduously avoided calling my books novels

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

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