We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

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

Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.