I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; its like the end of the world.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.