You talk as if Bea were a trophy.''No, as if she were a blessing, ' Fermin corrected.

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.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.

I am the rain, when I'm on math I make the day horrible that's why the day is horrible, that's why I don't go outside.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Oftentimes you walk on set and then suddenly you're in bed with someone who you've never met before.

Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.

From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently.

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

And I, love, am a pathological liar.