There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

He who awaits much can expect little.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.