I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

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.

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

There are worse prisons than words.

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