All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.

I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.

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

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.