The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain... It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see... That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed.

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?