Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.

It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.

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

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.