In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

To truly hate is an art one learns with time.

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.