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

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

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

Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.

Coincidences are the scars of fate.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.