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

Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.

Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?

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

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.