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

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.

Theory is the practice of the impotent.

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.