Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.

I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. "How does one choose a single book among so many?" Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.

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

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.