He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.