There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women…and Messi.

Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the….

Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually c….

I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-th….

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections..

I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is n….

I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between….

Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my sk….

A long time ago, I read in a book that a woman's homeland is wherever she fell in love..

It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books..