So little of what could happen does happen.

It is either easy or impossible.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.

I don't need drugs. I am drugs.

There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future