Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.

Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.