I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

The worst battle you'll have to fight is between what you know and how you feel.

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

Trying is just a noisy way of not doing something.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience