“Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.”
“Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote; La Mancha is not just geography; It is our personal territory—Terra Nostra.”
“A good novel is the biography of an imaginary person--and when the biography is completed, the person is no longer imaginary; he is as real as his creator”
“The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.”
“A man on a quest. A Don Quixote searching for his Dulcinea. But keep in mind my good friend, Don Quixote never found his Dulcinea, did he? He did not. There sometimes isn’t much difference between a knight’s quest and a fool’s errand.”
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”