All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

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

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

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.