Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.

We all give up great expectations along the way.

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.

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.