Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.

I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

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