Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind." You talk like the jacket blurb of a Victorian novel, Daniel." That's probably because I work in a bookshop and I've seen too many. But this is a true story.

As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.