A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

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.

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

Memories are worse than bullets.