We all give up great expectations along the way.

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

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.

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.