While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.