One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

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

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

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.