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

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

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.

Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain... It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see... That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed.

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.