Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.