Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?