"Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey."

"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."

"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."

"There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti."

"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."

"I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic."

"No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope."