Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

We exist as long as somebody remembers us.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.