God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil....

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

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

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.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

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.

A smile is the universal welcome.

He that is not with me is against me.

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

Anytime you go through a divorce, you're completely lost, whether you want to admit it or not, or whether you know it or not, you're completely lost.

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)

Movies mirror the times, they do not create them.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.