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

The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

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.

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

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.