There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

Coincidences are the scars of fate.

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

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.

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.

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.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.