The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

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.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?

Nothing will stop us from stealing our place in the sun. - The Founder from Lost in Atlantis

Our home is a belonging place.

It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out.