The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.

...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.