We all give up great expectations along the way.

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

Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values , and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.

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.