I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

Chaos is order yet undeciphered.

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.

The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.