A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

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

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

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

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips

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