Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.

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.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.