He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.

La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.