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.

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

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.

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.

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.