In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.