I write from solitude and I speak from solitude...However I did not seek solitude. I found it. And from my solitude I think, work, and live - and I believe that I write and speak with almost infinite composure and resignation. In my solitude I consta.

Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered; the chilly administrative neatness of museums and filing cases, of statistics and cemeteries, is an inhuman and antinatural kind of order; it is, in a word, disorder.

The greatest reward is to know that one can speak and emit articulate sounds and utter words that describe things, events and emotions.

The leading figure in Spain's literary renewal during the post-war era.

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

For a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.