The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonThe most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonMaking money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonI think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonAll interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon