Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either..

None of us are what we once were..

As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have to find something of ourselves ….

In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice..

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink..

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man..

I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Ba….

Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see..

We exist as long as somebody remembers us..

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it..

I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in….

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human..

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint..

It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company..

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around..

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy..

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman….

Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody..

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us..

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver..

Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and….