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

If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.