[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

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

Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values , and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society.

You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.

After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.