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…

- Antonio Lobo Antunes

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

- Antonio Lobo Antunes

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

- Antonio Lobo Antunes

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

- Antonio Lobo Antunes

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

- Antonio Lobo Antunes

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…

- Antonio Lobo Antunes

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…

- Antonio Lobo Antunes

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…

- Antonio Lobo Antunes

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…

- Antonio Lobo Antunes