"one of the most widespread mirages is to think we are not going to be like the other old people, we will be different…"

"The truth is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not choose, therefore, characters…"

"At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you...the only choices we have in life are either the imp…"

"The relationship between the human being and the flesh has always been a matter of huge conflict. Since the beginning…"

"I believe in twinship—in my novels there’s lots of twins—and it’s exactly about that. It’s about all of the possibili…"

"what we can control is how we respond to what happens to us, what we do with what happens to us. Even if the range of…"

"I have the feeling . . . no, the conviction, the certainness that reality and fiction are really mixed up. The fronti…"

"Kids are the ones who create; I find it really great to have my inner child still alive."

"You can’t make a living out of fiction writing. You can’t and you shouldn’t. I always tell everyone that is a huge mi…"

"The print journalism I do, reporting, is a literary genre as any other, and it can also be as sublime as any other."