There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

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.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

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.

You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.

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.