A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

Many people want to live in an alternate world. As a writer, it’s my job to put them there.

I'm convinced that not all units of time are equal.

See, winners embrace hard work.

If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.