Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

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

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.