En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

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.