I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care..

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person..

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go..

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad..

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself..

There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to s….

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way ….

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of t….

In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith.

People only disappear when they have somewhere to go.

Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive..

The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and b….

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It'….

I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic an….

He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or wh….

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do..

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth..

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will ne….

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite..

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth..

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it..