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

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

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.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.