Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.

Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.

It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.