The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her face. She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her embarrassment. The knowledge that they were behaving as if they were sweethearts was even more embarrassing, and the knowledge that they were both embarrassed embarrassed them so much that Captain Samaritano noticed it with a tremor of compassion.

An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

In the end all books are written for your friends.