I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

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.

The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

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.

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

we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.