As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.

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.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

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

Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.