This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.