Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It’s about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the...

It really doesn’t bother me,” she said. “I’ve always thought it stupid to try to hide your age, or to pretend to be younger than you are. Denying your age is like denying your life.

What about the future?””We’ll talk about the future when it gets here.

No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you’ve got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china. I think you understand what it is to be a passionate collector of...

Irremediablemente, él nota el regusto de melancolía. De pronto los recuerdos acuden atropellándose: palabras breves como gemidos deslizándose por una piel desnuda, escorzo de líneas largas y suaves reflejadas sobre un espejo que multiplicaba el...

También ésta es la historia de mi vida, pensó, o parte de ella: buscar un taxi de madrugada, oliendo a mujer o a noche perdida, sin que una cosa contradiga la otra.

He who kills from afar knows nothing at all about act of killing. He who kills from afar derives no lesson from life or from death; he neither risks nor stains his hands with blood,...

You can make a text mean anything, especially if it’s old and full of ambiguities.