One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

- Javier Marías

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

- Javier Marías

Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.

- Javier Marías

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

- Javier Marías

The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which…

- Javier Marías

We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according to their own desires are those w…

- Javier Marías

People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's alway…

- Javier Marías

Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an…

- Javier Marías

Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

- Javier Marías