When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'