... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.