There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character—the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.