I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return ticket to her youth.

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.

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful

Don't win someone you're willing to lose

Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.

...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh.

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.