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.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.

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 worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.

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.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.