Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive

If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.

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

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.

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

All 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.

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.