I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.

I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.