Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.

...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.

Americans have discovered fear.

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

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

we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

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.