Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

I write for the same reason I eat chocolate - because it is, undeniably a compulsion.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.

I will do my best to entertain. That's what I am: an entertainer.

Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.

I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.