Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

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.

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

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

God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

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