I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.

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

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.