Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.

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

There are people you remember and people you dream of.

We exist as long as somebody remembers us.