Everything that is contradictory creates life

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

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.