Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one singl….

God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil..

The truth is what hurts.

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart..

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race….

While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye..

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court..

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music..

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens..

I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. One of the gre….

A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote ….

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really….

Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country..

But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up..

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas.….

We all give up great expectations along the way..

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will….

Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just ….

I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural po….

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. ….

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see ….