I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

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

...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.

we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. To truly appreciate life we must remember that nothing lasts for ever and take nothing we enjoy for granted. In so doing we stay grateful and happy for all our good fortune.

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.