The Savage Detectives: A Novel

when the glass is, shall we say, glazed with mezcal, the tequila is more at ease, like a naked woman in a fur coat.

Invidia ceu fulmine summa vaporant.

Mentally, I thanked him for it, because if there’s anything I hate it’s a hysterical Frenchman.

Freedom is like a prime number.

Odero, si potero. Si non, invitus amabo.

I think I’ve never met a stranger who was so generous to me and yet whom I disliked so much.

see everything as if he were Dante and he’d just returned from hell, or not Dante, I mean, but Virgil himself, such a sensitive boy,

Stultorum plena sunt omnia,

Wherever Claudia lives is Israel, said Norman, no matter what fucking place it is, call it whatever you want, Mexico, Israel, France, the United States, planet Earth.