You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

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.

Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

I feel a thrill of excitement at this first tiny glimpse of self-revelation, of intimacy.

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.

No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.