While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability.

Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.

I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of God, but good reasons for supposing that there is no God at all....

Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote; La Mancha is not just geography; It is our personal territory—Terra Nostra.

Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing in his dream state. He was mad. He entered reality only when he...

Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From Dalí and El Greco, From the gloomy ‘View of Toledo.’ He was born before Cervantes.

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

I come in a world of iron…to make a world of gold

After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.

There is remedy for all things except death – Don Quixote De La Mancha

…if the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is always won through favor or because of the high estate of the person, second is won because...

When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The...

Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight’s frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic...